Enlarge / NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green discusses NASA’s InSight mission during a prelaunch media briefing. NASAWeather permitting, NASA will send its first spacecraft to Mars since 2013 early on Saturday morning. The InSight mission, designed to study the interior of the Red Planet, is the agency’s first Martian lander—a stationary vehicle as opposed to…

Theresa May was today urged by leading Brexiteers to seize on today’s local election victories to make a clean break from the EU.    Boris Johnson said the local election results proved the Prime Minister had the backing over voters when she pledged to take Britain out of the EU customs union and single market.  The Foreign Secretary…

This year, Facebook’s F8 developers conference was bound to be different. After all, the company is still dealing with the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica (CA) data privacy scandal. But, Zuckerberg said during the opening keynote he was ready to « move forward, » and instead he came to talk about how Facebook plans to light up…

Meet Hamoudi, kidnapped and tortured after standing up to Islamic State group in Raqqa. As the extremists imposed their harsh rule on his city, Hamoudi decided to mobilise protests against them, but then he must face the consequences. Viewers in the UK can watch Lyse Doucet’s two-part documentary Syria: the World’s War here. The documentaries…

Die US-Regierung von Präsident Donald Trump beendet den besonderen Schutzstatus für Flüchtlinge aus Honduras. Das Ministerium für Heimatschutz teilte den gut 50.000 Betroffenen mit, sie hätten eineinhalb Jahre Zeit, um die USA zu verlassen oder einen anderen Aufenthaltsstatus zu erlangen. Die Bedingungen in Honduras seien ausreichend gut für eine Rückkehr, argumentierte das Ministerium. Wer am…

Donald Trump has said that a London hospital is as “bad as a military war zone” because of knife violence during a speech at the annual National Rifle Association convention praising gun rights. The comment came during a wide ranging speech in which Mr Trump promoted the work he is doing as president and sought to…

« Here’s one where Buffett’s just going to ride it out, betting that perhaps the worst is over, » Cramer said of Berkshire’s investment in ailing bank giant Wells Fargo. « I expect he’ll spend as little time as possible on Wells because it’s so darned embarrassing, » the « Mad Money » host added. While Berkshire can’t buy any more…

Posted May 05, 2018 08:35:14 Related Story: Toddler rescued from train tracks by quick-acting student A grandfather has been praised for deftly tripping an armed suspect who was running from the police, allowing officers to make an arrest. The man, identified only as « Bill » by police, had just left a library in Columbus, Ohio when…