Saturday, November 14, 2009 WASHINGTON: NASA has announced that a 'significant quantity' of water ice has been found on the moon.The news comes just over one month after the LCROSS probe fired a CENTAUR missile-projectile at a lunar crater to survey for possible water reserves. The spectrographic analysis of the cloud of debris thrown up by the missile's impact confirmed the presence of water in the form of ice.
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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