AP - NASA's newest outpost in the solar system is a polygon-cracked terrain in Mars' northern polar region believed to hold a reservoir of ice beneath.
AFP - US space scientists were to attempt Sunday to land a 420-million-dollar spacecraft near Mars's frigid north pole, but were concerned that the odds for success were less than 50 percent.
AFP - At least 10 people including six young children from the same family were killed as torrential rain lashed Swat Valley in northwestern Pakistan, police said Sunday.
LiveScience.com - The giant earthquake that unleashed the Indian Ocean tsunamis in
2004 - killing more than 225,000 people in one of the deadliest natural
disasters in history - might also have triggered other quakes around
the world, new findings reveal. -- read full article
AP - European and developing countries urged the United States and Japan on Sunday to commit to deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 — a step they say is needed to defuse a coming ecological disaster caused by global warming.
AP - A three-legged NASA spacecraft was closing in on Mars Sunday for what scientists hope will be the first-ever touchdown near Mars' north pole to study whether the permafrost could have supported primitive life.
AP - Authorities checking on a car stranded in a field Saturday morning found two people killed by a powerful storm that raked the state a day earlier with at least 17 tornadoes.
AFP - US space scientists were to attempt Sunday to land a 420-million-dollar spacecraft near Mars's frigid north pole, but were concerned that the odds for success were less than 50 percent.
AFP - Supercell storms plowed across northern Oklahoma state Saturday spawning several tornadoes that crushed structures and sent debris flying miles away, US media reported.
AP - European and developing countries urged the United States and Japan on Sunday to commit to deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 — a step they say is needed to defuse a coming ecological disaster caused by global warming.
AP - A three-legged NASA spacecraft was closing in on Mars Sunday for what scientists hope will be the first-ever touchdown near Mars' north pole to study whether the permafrost could have supported primitive life.
AP - Forecasters said Saturday that at least a dozen tornadoes spun across western and central Kansas a day earlier, destroying numerous homes, downing trees and injuring several people.
AFP - Eight giant pandas were flown Saturday from quake-ravaged southwestern China to Beijing, where they will be housed at a new zoo exhibit built for the Olympic Games, state press said.
AP - Very unsettled weather was expected in the western half of the country on Saturday, from rain and high elevation snow in California to heavy rain and thunderstorms in the western Plains.
