CAPE CANAVERAL: Astronauts John Grunsfeld and Drew Feustel will exit the space Shuttle Atlantis Thursday morning for the first of five space walks to upgrade Hubble. Astronauts will replace the telescope's 15-year-old workhorse camera with one that sees deeper into the universe. The new camera is the size of a baby grand piano. The old camera will be displayed at the Smithsonian Institution.This space walk should take about six-and-a-half hours and includes replacing a computer data device that broke down last year. Atlantis grabbed Hubble Wednesday and shuttle commander Scott Altman said the two spacewalkers were ``salivating over the telescope.''
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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