
tudy the rocks inside Gale Crater, one of the deepest holes on Mars, for signs that the planet may once have supported microbial life. The $2.5 billion mission is due to touch down at 05:31 GMT Monday 6 August; 22:31 PDT, Sunday 5 August. It will be a totally automated landing. Engineers here at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, can only watch and wait. The vast distance…

…Jersey’s Bedminster Township, according to the NJ.com. His plans include two cemetery lots, one containing 82 plots and the other containing 942 plots, that would cover nearly three acres of the 516-acre course. The Bedminster Township Committee, a board of local officials in the sprawling rural town, was scheduled to meet and discuss Donald Trump’s plans on Monday evening. The committ…
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…eir mothers The article also provoked responses from religious and Pro-Life groups. Rev. Joanna Jepson came to public attention when she spoke out against a late abortion that had been carried out in 2001. Doctors are permitted to carry out abortions beyond the 24-week legal limit if they believe a baby’s disability is serious enough, but Rev. Joanna Jepson argued that a cleft palate was a…

“Bicholim Conflict” was voted a “good article” – a Wikipedia badge of honor – and sat happily on the online encyclopedia for more than half a decade. But editors have lately discovered a small issue with the site’s meticulously written 4,500 word article detailing the 17th century Bicholim Conflict. It was entirely made up. After five years of featuring the piece, which tells th…

ything could happen. I feel the mayor should do something about that. The children should be our first priority, no matter what else is going on in the city.” Zak, a former Cleveland police officer of 30 years, believes the community is feeling the effects of the city’s cuts in the police force. “The first thing a city should do is protect its citizens,” he said. Although police cannot be on the s…
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ly of natural gas that can last America nearly 100 years. (Applause.) And my administration will take every possible action to safely develop this energy. Experts believe this will support more than 600,000 jobs by the end of the decade. And I’m requiring all companies that drill for gas on public lands to disclose the chemicals they use. (Applause.) Because America will develop this resourc…

Solar Impulse, a solar-powered plane, has landed in Rabat, Morocco, after flying from Spain, completing the second leg of its pioneering journey. Pilot Bertrand Piccard landed the Solar Impulse in Rabat, 19 hours after taking off from Madrid. The plane – the size of a jumbo jet – was powered by 12,000 solar cells turning four electrical motors. The 2,500 km-trip (1,550 miles), begun i…

Whitney Houston’s premature death at 48 in Beverly Hilton Hotel triggered a slew of media speculation and rumors about her alleged drug use and troubled personal relationships. Now, a Vanity Fair article has shed new light on Whitney Houston’s personal life and last days in Los Angeles, three months after she was found drowned in a hotel bathtub. One of the more bizarre anecdotes is recount…
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…ave things for the family,” said Christine Tucker, spokeswoman for the fan club. “He inspires us to create. We make these beautiful things and we want his kids and his mom to see it.” Karen Jackson, a 57-year old fan, stayed up all night working on her creation – a charm-covered chain anchored by a metal “M” that includes tiny photos of Prince, Paris and Blanket. “I’ve been working on this f…

…tic. But now startling new claims suggest an extraordinary twist. Paul Huebl, a Los Angeles private investigator, who has probed celebrity drugs cases and suspicious deaths, sensationally alleges that 48-year-old Whitney Houston was murdered by two thugs sent by high-powered East Coast drug dealers to collect on a $1.5 million debt. Former police officer Paul Huebl says he has presented the FBI wi…
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…Connor Cruise, were sent on a course to teach them to recognize “suppressive persons”, such as their adoptive mother. The article includes an interview with John Brousseau, who was a Scientologist for 32 years and is a former brother-in-law to the church leader David Miscavige. Us Magazine claims that Bella and Connor Cruise were sent on a course to teach them to recognize “suppressive persons”,…
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…me photos, he is reading Friday’s copy of the Communist Party newspaper Granma. Fidel Castro led Cuba after the revolution in 1959, first as prime minister (1959-1976) and later as president. In 2006, surgery took Fidel Castro out of public view. His brother Raul became acting president. In February 2008, Fidel Castro officially handed over power to Raul who has been leading the country sinc…
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British clinician Martin Bell is so fed up with treating women for joint pain because of their high heels he has devised a course – to teach them to walk properly. Martin Bell, 40, has been inundated with women complaining of back and knee pain because of their “wonky” posture on high heels. The clinical orthotist has already helped hundreds of women by teaching them to stand and use their…
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E.L. James bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey took the world by storm, selling more than 3.2 million copies up to now. Now, the novel is being offered as the subject of a course at American University (AU). Sex educator and AU professor Stef Woods will teach “Contemporary American Culture: The 50 Shades Trilogy”, to 25 students starting in January, successfully turning popular culture into a subject…
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Intel confirms details of the first smartphone to be powered by one of its processors. The XOLO X900, made by the Indian manufacturer Lava, will go on sale on 23 April priced at about 22,000 rupees ($420). Lava has teamed up with Indian retail chain Croma to distribute the device across the country. The move follows Intel’s previous failed attempt to break into the smartphone market. A tie-…

…a records what is happening before a patient’s eyes and fires beams of near infrared light on to the retinal chip. The creates an electrical signal which is passed on to nerves. Natural light is 1,000 times too weak to power the implant. The researchers said: “Because the photovoltaic implant is thin and wireless, the surgical procedure is much simpler than in other retinal prosthetic…

igeroa, who told police that her daughter stabbed her own child. When officers went to the home, they found Emily Castro covered in mud, water and blood. Emily and Anthony’s father Ariel Castro, 52, was arrested on Monday after one of his alleged victims, Amanda Berry, escaped his home and called police. Neighbors in the street were shocked to hear that Ariel Castro, who was a school bus dri…
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id we’d call the police, let a little time go by and then I decided to drive Kris back to wherever she had to go. “I was driving in an open Jeep at the time. As I pulled out of my garage, it was about 5:00 p.m. and a sunny day, he comes charging out with a golf club in his 450 SL convertible. “He took a swing and whacked the back of my car. I said <<holy s***, Kris, can I pull over and confr…

…sh at the Beverly Hills hotel in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The windscreen was smashed and the front of the car caved in. The airbags were activated and parts of the vehicle littered the ground. Diddy, 42, was so shaken by the crash that he was seen lying down on the grass beside his vehicle. He was accompanied by record label boss Andre Hurrell, who helped him to his feet. A second passenger was a…
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resley Enterprises said the singer first rented the house before he and Priscilla bought it in 1967. It was then sold in 1973 after the couple divorced. Elvis Presley died in August 1977 at the age of 42. This year, to mark the 35th anniversary of his death, more than 75,000 fans held a candle-lit vigil outside the gated complex, where they were joined by Priscilla and daughter Lisa-Marie. …
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…ot an email response from HP: “Since we sold out of the current stock, we are building new units in order to fulfill orders received through 4am Monday, Aug 22. This means a delivery date in the 6 – 8 week range. Your order will be fulfilled.” Order was placed Saturday August 20th 3:50 PM. Updates for 8/29: No update from HP yet and they have stopped taking email notifications. Every…

Coolpix S800c, the first mainstream digital camera to be powered by Google’s Android system, has been released by Nikon. Nikon’s point-and-shoot Coolpix S800c model is being marketed as a “social imaging device”. Demand for compact cameras has suffered because of the rise of smartphones. However, Nikon says its latest model offers superior picture quality thanks to the siz…

…using what the firm dubbed “digital ink”. When the stylus is held close to the screen of the tablet it ignores touch-input from the users’ hands and “samples” the ink at 600 dpi (dots per inch). The ARM-based version will be available with either 32 GB (gigabytes) or 64 GB of storage. Microsoft said they would be priced at a similar rate to other tablets using the sa…

…, the article by investigative journalist Edward Epstein revealed. The article continued to pick flaws in Nafissatou Diallo’s statement too, which coincided with the missing mobile. Nafissatou Diallo, 32, entered DSK’s hotel room at 12:06 on May 14 for housekeeping and claims that within the six minutes she was in room 2806 with him, she was dragged near the bathroom and forced to give him oral se…

Tom Cruise’s lawyer has threatened the National Enquirer with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over a new issue asserting it has details of the actor’s recent split with wife Katie Holmes, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The website posted a letter from Tom Cruise’s Los Angeles attorney, Bert Fields, in which he blasts American Media Inc, parent of the National Enquirer, for w…
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