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It was 2.30am when the convoy finally reached Camp Zeebrugge, crawling through the moonless night like a herd of prehistoric beasts, headlights peering into the dust ahead, brakes squealing at the stars above.
Japan’s Cabinet approved a bill Friday to extend a refueling mission in support of U.S.-led anti-terror operations in the Indian Ocean, officials said.
NASA chose a University of Colorado proposal for a $485 million Mars mission on Monday after a nine-month delay caused by a conflict of interest in the selection process. The delay cost the space agency time, money and science.
NASA has delayed the launch of an unmanned spacecraft to the moon to scout for potential landing sites for astronauts.
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program _ a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium _ reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing...
The knock on Brian Hart’s door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq.Brian Hart didn’t channel his...
Nepal’s government has decided to ask the United Nations to continue a peacekeeping mission in the country for another six months, an official said Friday.All major political parties agreed to seek the U.N. extension but a formal request to the world...
NASA encouraged Europe on Thursday to develop its own manned spaceship, which would give the world _ and particularly the U.S. _ another way of reaching the international space station.Europe became “a full-fledged space power,” the agency’s...
Strangers from near and far are offering their help to Patches, the Ogden cat who needs an expensive operation. Patches suffered a spinal cord injury that paralyzed her rear right leg when she was a kitten.It’s a disability that could lead to Patches’...
The homemade signs says it all: Buy a drink, help my cat. Aspen Granath hopes the plea will draw enough customers to her lemonade stand on a street corner to pay for expensive surgery for her cat, Patches.The 10-year-old and her 8-year-old brother,...
The White House said Wednesday that President Bush has paid a price for the “Mission Accomplished” banner that was flown in triumph five years ago but later became a symbol of U.S. misjudgments and mistakes in the long and costly war in Iraq.Thursday...
