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WASHINGTON: The recent attempt from NASA to bomb moon surface in search of water has failed to achieve success as the dust appeared with the blow of rocket did not carry possible water vapors.After gearing up for the space agency's much-hyped mission to hurl two spacecraft into the moon, the public turned away from the sky Friday anything but dazzled. Photos and video of the impact showed little more than a fuzzy white flash. In social media and live television coverage, many people were disappointed at the lack of spectacle. One person even joked that someone hit the pause button in mission control.Yet scientists involved in the project were downright gleeful. Sure, there were no immediate pictures of spewing plumes of lunar dust that could contain water, but, they say, there was something more important: chemical signatures in light waves. That's the real bonanza, not pictures of geyser-like eruptions of debris, the scientists said.The mission was executed for “a scientific ...

Saturday, October 10, 2009 NEW YORK: Naomi Campbell is 5ft10 in her socks, so imagine how intimidating she is in 7in heels... The powerdressing supermodel was making power moves yesterday after flying to Paris on Thursday for a charity mission.She has persuaded fashion giant Louis Vuitton to donate some proceeds from a bag to the White Ribbon Alliance, a motherhood charity she's ambassador for.Naomi flew in to pick out the bag in person. Well, you wouldn't dare say no to her in that outfit! Good work, girl.

Saturday, October 10, 2009 LOS ANGELES: Controversial pop singer, Britney spears, whose life is now back on track, wishes to do the same for her children, as she now fights for complete custody with visitation rights to her ex-husband, Kevin Federline.Pop Singer Britney Spears is going to file for full custody of her children, starting this November. Her two sons, Sean Preston, seven and Jayden James, four are currently under the custody of her dancer ex-husband, Kevin Ferderline. The 28 year old singer now believes that it is her husband, who is in dire need of help and would be a bad role model for her two sons and therefore, wishes to take over custody of her children. She is on a damage control mode ever since her downward spiral after the birth of her second child. Trouble started brewing when Spears started being known in the media as the bad girl of show business, after she was caught in a series of embarrassing situations by the press. The final tipping point came when she sha...

Saturday, October 10, 2009 LIMA: A frieze that would have been sculpted 5,000 years ago, was found at Vichama archaeological complex, some 120km to the north of Lima, according to archaeologists of the Caral-Supe project. According to a press release, the most notable part of the frieze is one that represents a human hand holding an object like a knife or a spindle. The exposed part of the hand measures 23 x 20 inches, and the instrument is 35 cm long by 20 centimeters wide. The archaeologists think that the frieze might be associated with ceremonial activities, and could probably represent a particular scene or ritual slaughter. Dated from 5,000 years ago, this would be one of the oldest friezes in the region.

Saturday, October 10, 2009 LAGOS: Between 70 and 80 people were killed when a fuel tanker truck exploded after hitting a pothole on a road in southern Nigeria, several newspapers said on Saturday.The truck overturned and exploded after hitting a pothole on Friday on the road between Onitsha and Enugu, witnesses and police told the papers, torching vehicles including five packed minibuses. Anambra state road safety director Ben Ekenna admitted local roads were in a bad state and was quoted as saying that "if something isn't done quickly, tragedies like this will happen again." Accidents on Nigeria's poorly-maintained inter-city roads are common.

Saturday, October 10, 2009 WASHINGTON: US lawmakers urged authorities in India's eastern state of Orissa to prosecute perpetrators of violence against Christians, saying the nation's reputation for tolerance was at stake.In a letter to the state's Chief Minister Navin Patnaik released Friday, the lawmakers voiced concern that many perpetrators of last year's violence were still at large and intimidating their victims.More than 100 Christian were killed and thousands more left homeless between August and October 2008 following the murder of a revered Hindu holy man, which was blamed on Christians."Such attacks on the fundamental freedom of religion threaten not only India's reputation for religious diversity, but also the very stability of India's secular democracy," the 21 lawmakers, led by Republican Trent Franks, wrote in the letter sent late last month."Given the recent experience with religiously inspired terrorism, we are concerned that if H...

Saturday, October 10, 2009 NEW YORK: US Health officials said that 76 children in the United States have died of swine flu since April, including 16 new reports in the past week more evidence the new virus is unusually dangerous in kids. The regular flu kills between 46 and 88 children a year, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. With swine flu cases increasing throughout most of the country, more deaths are likely, Dr. Anne Schuchat said at a press conference.

Saturday, October 10, 2009 ISLAMABAD: Security forces Saturday raided a house in Islamabad, about 5 to 6 kilometers away from GHQ, where the terrorists had been residing before launching the attack at GHQ, sources said.Security forces have arrested the owner of the house where the terrorists had planned the attack, sources added. The terrorists were believed to have been residing in this house for the last three to four months, sources said.Security uniforms, shoes, badges, documents, diaries and detonators have been recovered from the house, sources said.The photos of the killed terrorists provided lead to the security forces, pointing to the residence of terrorists.

Saturday, October 10, 2009 ::ISLAMABAD: About 4 to 5 terrorists are holding 10-15 people, including security and civil personnel, hostage in a security office of GHQ, DG ISPR Maj. General Athar Abbas said on Saturday. Security personnel have surrounded the office, he added. Earlier, six terrorists attempted to launch an attack on GHQ which was foiled by the security personnel. Four terrorists were killed while two escaped from the scene. Six security men including a Brigadier Anwar and Lt. Col. Wasim were also martyred in the incident. Six terrorists in army uniform attempted to get entry into GHQ at 11:30 am on Saturday from gate no 1. When stopped by security officials, they reached at check post no 1 and opened fire on security men after taking positions after leaving the car. Four terrorists were killed and two fled during trade of fire between security officials and terrorists. Army gunship helicopters started hovering over the area for vigilance. The commandos seized the bodies ...

The Pakistan Army General Headquarter attack occurred on October 10, 2009, when some gunmen in military uniform open fire at General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. It is estimated to have killed 6 militants and 4 Pakistan army soldiers. Police have increased security within the nearby Pakistani capital of Islamabad. Six assailants came up to the Pakistan Army GHQ's checkpost number 1 and fired at the guards stationed there. They were finally stopped at the checkpost number 2. Four of the attacker were killed in the encounter with the security forces, while 2 at still at large.The attacker are still holding several persons hostage near the GHQ complex.. Victims who have already perished include a Brigadier and Lt. Colonel Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has been blamed for the attack. Militants were wearing army uniform in camouflage gear and were armed with 'sophisticated weapons'. Media Blackout Two news channels Geo TV and Samaa were taken off air for a hour. A m...

Herta Müller, an ethnic German who fled Ceausescu's dictatorship in Romania, yesterday won the Nobel prize for literature for her stories presenting "the landscape of the dispossessed". Born into the marginalised German-speaking community in Romania, Ms Müller was dismissed from her job as a translator in 1979 when she refused to inform for the secret police. Her first story collection, written in German in 1982, was censored by Ceausescu's regime. Repeatedly threatened by the Romanian authorities, in 1987 she escaped to Germany, where she still lives. Ms Muller's literature reflects themes of oppression and alienation. "In this country, we had to walk, eat, sleep, and love in fear," she wrote in The Land of Green Plums (1996), which won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Ms Müllerwas praised by the Swedish academy for writing with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose". "I'm surprised and still can't...

LAHERI/ GADCHIROLI: Woman power was at work for the Naxals who handed over the cops' biggest ever loss close to Laheri sub-police station in Gadchiroli on Thursday. Tarakka, wife of central committee member and Maharashtra in-charge Mullajhola Venugopal, alias Bhupati, in her capacity as south Gadchiroli division committee member, was learnt to be involved in planning the operation and also led the rebels in action. Tarakka, in her forties, is learnt to be a sharp-minded leader whose association with the movement and experience of the terrain are critical. Sources said that Tarakka ensured that her side won the mindgame as well. "We heard her abusing the cops over the wireless set they had looted during the encounter. Her threatening voice was heard over the entire network," said a cop adding that she constantly urged the cops to surrender. Slogans like "Policewale surrender ho jao' and 'Jai Beenagonda' were also repeatedly raised by the rebels during the...

PORT-AU-PRINCE: A UN surveillance plane belonging to the Uruguayan contingent of the UN peacekeeping force crashed in Haiti east of the capital on Friday, killing all 11 people on board, UN officials said.The plane went down near the town of Fonds-Verrettes, close to the border with the Dominican Republic, chief UN spokeswoman Michele Montas said.Another UN spokeswoman, Vannina Maestracci, said a UN rescue team had confirmed there were no survivors among the 11 crew and military personnel who had been on the plane.The dead were Uruguayans and Jordanians, Maestracci said.She said the plane, a Casa-212, had been on a routine border patrol when it crashed into a mountainside. The cause of the crash was unknown.Earlier, Montas said contact was lost on Friday morning with the plane. Another UN plane later spotted the wreckage some 12 miles west of Fonds-Verrettes, she said.The plane crashed near the village of Pays-Pourri in the district of Ganthier, east of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Pr...

Saturday, October 10, 2009 ABU DHABI: Hilary Swank and Demi Moore starred for the United States at the opening of the Third Middle East Film Festival in the UAE capital on Thursday, while a host of Arab performers shared the spotlight.Swank, in a long white gown by Lebanese designer Elie Saab, and Moore, wearing a simple black dress enhanced by a necklace of black pearls and diamonds, won rapturous applause as they walked up the red carpet into the luxurious Emirates Palace Hotel.The festival opened with the movie "The Traveller", directed by Egyptian director Ahmed Maher and starring Omar Sharif, Khalid Abdel Nabi and Cyrine Abdelnour, previously shown at the Venice Film Festival last month.Sharif missed the festival opening ceremony but Abdelnour, a Lebanese actress in her first starring role, joined other guests for a gala evening on the hotel's floodlit seafront terrace, where champagne flowed freely.Frida Pinto, star of Indian film Slumdog Millionaire, was among int...

Friday, October 09, 2009 UNITED NATIONS: UN chief Ban Ki-moon sharply condemned the suicide bomb attack that left at least 49 people dead and more than 100 injured in a packed market in the Pakistani city of Peshawar Friday."The secretary general condemns, in the strongest possible terms, today's bomb attack at a market in the Pakistani town of Peshawar which reportedly killed at least 49 people, including children and women, and injured many more," his office said in a statement."No cause can justify such indiscriminate violence," it added.The car bomb blast, which hit around midday, left charred corpses strewn in a shopping area in Peshawar's main Khyber Bazaar, with cars reduced to burning wreckage and a colourful city bus destroyed and flung on its side.Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik blamed the Taliban and said the attack could force the military to bring forward a planned operation to wipe out Islamist militant strongholds in the northwest tr...

Friday, October 09, 2009 PARIS: French agents have arrested an engineer working at the CERN nuclear research lab on suspicion of being in contact with the Al-Qaeda militant network and planning attacks, officials said Friday. "Perhaps we have avoided the worst," Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux told journalists, adding that investigators were trying to establish which targets in "France or elsewhere" the suspect was hoping to strike. Security sources in Paris said the suspected Islamist, one of a pair of brothers detained on Thursday, worked at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research on the Franco-Swiss border just outside Geneva. The pair were arrested in Vienne, a town on the Rhone river some 100 kilometres (65 miles) southwest of the Alpine lab, by officers from France's security service acting on a warrant from an anti-terrorist magistrate. According to officials, the engineer had made contact over the Internet with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a...

Friday, October 09, 2009 KARACHI: Tremors have been felt in India in border areas adjacent to Pakistan, reports said Friday.According to Seismology Centre here, the earthquake hit Gujarat’s area of Gandhi Dam with magnitude of 4 on Richter scale.The tremors were also felt in border areas of Pakistan including Mirpur Khas, Mithi and Umarkot.

Friday, October 09, 2009 :: WASHINGTON: The United States blasted the surface of the moon Friday with two rockets on a mission to look for water below the lunar surface that could be used by astronauts on future space missions, NASA said. At 1130 GMT the LCROSS satellite crashed into the Cabeus crater floor near the moon's south pole at around 5,600 miles (9,000 kilometers) per hour, followed four minutes later by a shepherding spacecraft equipped with cameras to record the impact. Grainy thermal images carried on the US space agency's television station showed colder blue sites and warmer red sites on the moon's surface, but there was no apparent light flash as the rockets made impact. NASA said the blasts would kick up a plume of lunar dirt to an altitude of about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) and produce a flash lasting about 30 seconds. Cameras mounted on the 1,965-pound (891-kilogram) shepherding spacecraft were to beam live footage of the initial impact as the craft flew...

Friday, October 09, 2009 MANCHESTER: Conservative Party chief David Cameron pledged Thursday more troops for Afghanistan if he takes power next year.In a keynote speech to his party's annual conference he said former army chief Richard Dannatt, who has criticised the current Labour government over Afghanistan, could join his ministerial team."We cannot spend another eight years taking ground only to give it back again," he said, referring to military difficulties since the 2001 ouster of the Taliban in Afghanistan."So our method should be clear -- send more soldiers to train more Afghans to deliver the security we need. Then we can bring our troops home," added Cameron, who polls forecast will win elections due by next June.Dannatt, who retired in August, repeatedly embarrassed Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government while in office by saying troops in Afghanistan had not been given enough resources.On Tuesday this week he told the Sun newspaper the govern...

Friday, October 09, 2009 BEIJING: The collapse of two elevators in a tin ore mine in central China has killed 26 men and injured five others in the latest accident to hit the country's dangerous mining industry, an official said Friday.Yuan Ronghua, an official with the Communist Party in the city of Loudi, which oversees Lengshuijiang city in Hunan province, said the five injured are being treated and are in stable and safe conditions.According to state television CCTV the elevators plunged 197 feet (60 meters). A local news agency said that 19 men died immediately in the accident that took place Thursday and seven others later when the brakes failed. It did not give any details on how that happened.China's mines are the world's deadliest, although the closing of many small, dangerous mines has halved the average number of miners killed to about six a day in the first half of this year. Most accidents are blamed on failures to follow safety rules, including a lack of requ...