NASA Launches A Facebook Game

NASA Launches A Facebook Game

NASA Launches A Facebook Game

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 11:11 PM PST

NASA has launched a game on Facebook to help teach kids facts about basic science and the space program.


VIDEO: EU agrees pact to balance budgets

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 10:32 PM PST

At the EU summit in Brussels, 25 of the 27 member states have agreed to sign a new pact designed to force eurozone countries to balance their budgets.


VIDEO: Spanish court to decide on judge trial

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 10:35 PM PST

The supreme court in Spain is due to decide later today whether to proceed with the prosecution of the country's most prominent judge for abuse of power


VIDEO: UN to debate Syria resolution

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 10:30 PM PST

Western powers are increasing the pressure on the UN Security Council to take action in Syria, where violence continues to rage.


Fate of Chinese held in Sudan uncertain

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 10:49 PM PST

The fate of dozens of construction workers kidnapped in Sudan, including a group of Chinese nationals, remained unclear Tuesday amid conflicting reports on the situation.

Afghan police: Wife killed for bearing girl

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 10:41 PM PST

Police in the northern Afghanistan province of Kunduz are looking for a man they say strangled his wife after she bore him a third child that was not a son.

Indonesia Pulls Jakarta Port Tender, Pleading Poverty

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 10:06 PM PST

If there?s one thing that most Indonesians can agree on, it?s the pressing need for new infrastructure. Commuting in Jakarta is an exercise in frustration that reminds me of a Don DeLillo?s character?s wry take on gridlock: ?You will hit traffic that speaks in quarter inches.???Road congestion isn?t the only bottleneck. Indonesia?s port capacity is ...


2012 Semiconductor Outlook

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 10:05 PM PST

Tom Starnes and I recently presented our outlook for the semiconductor market in an article in Electronic Design.?? Here are some highlights: 2012 promises to be a difficult year, with capacity adds in 2010 leading to an oversupply Thailand?s floods will constrain PC shipments, leading to overages of all non-HDD products used in PCs, causing ...


Qaeda militants killed in Yemen air strike: residents (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 10:00 PM PST

Reuters - At least 11 al Qaeda militants, including a number of local leaders, were killed in an overnight air strike in southern Yemen, local residents said on Tuesday.


Timeline: Tibetan protests in China

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 10:08 PM PST

The escalation of tensions in ethnically Tibetan regions of China is the latest in a series that have resulted in deaths, frayed ties between the United States and China, and greater pressure from Beijing against the Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet for India in 1959 after a failed uprising.

Japan's nuclear 'stress tests' get OK

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 09:56 PM PST

U.N. nuclear experts gave a thumbs-up to Japan's planned "stress tests" for its remaining nuclear power plants Tuesday but left Japanese authorities to decide whether the plants themselves are safe.

VIDEO: Calls to tackle Somalia problems

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 09:08 PM PST

Britain has called for a stronger international approach to tackle the root causes of the problems in Somalia.


Uh-Oh: Why Apps Won't Fade in 2012 Like I Stupidly Predicted

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 09:48 PM PST

Less than a month after rashly predicting that apps would start to fade this year (for the second year in a row), I?m about to eat some humble pie. I still figure that improved Web technologies such as HTML5 eventually will make apps less appealing to users by making the mobile Web experience better. But ...


Qaeda militants killed in Yemen air strike: residents

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 10:00 PM PST

ADEN (Reuters) - At least 11 al Qaeda militants, including a number of local leaders, were killed in an overnight air strike in southern Yemen, local residents said on Tuesday.

China's state TV making huge global expansion (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 09:32 PM PST

AP - The killing of a South Korean coast guard officer by a Chinese fisherman should have been tailor-made for China's CCTV News as it embarks on an ambitious plan to become a global network with assertive international coverage.


US says Assad's fall 'inevitable'

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 09:52 PM PST

White House says Syria's leadership has lost control of the country, as Western and Arab nations push for UN resolution.


Haiti drops 'Baby Doc' rights abuses case

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 09:52 PM PST

Duvalier to face corruption trial, but rights groups criticise ruling not to charge him over torture and murder claims.


Sudan squeeze through behind Ivory Coast

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 02:53 PM PST

Didier Drogba and co are clear Group B winners as Sudan make the quarter-finals by the skin of their teeth.


VIDEO: Calls to tackle Somalia problems

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 09:08 PM PST

Britain has called for a stronger international approach to tackle the root causes of the problems in Somalia.


Oil above $99 in Asia on Europe's austerity move (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 09:11 PM PST

In this photo taken Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, traffic heads south along Route 220 at intersection with Witamy Lane near Lisa Richlin’s home near Laporte, Pa. Richlin is in court with Central New York Oil and Gas Company LLC on trying to get them to move a proposed entrance road for building the MARC 1 pipeline from a couple hundred yards north of her home at Thorndale Road to a site a couple hundred yards south of her home at Witamy Lane. (AP Photo/Jimmy May)AP - Oil rose above $99 a barrel Tuesday in Asia in sync with gains in regional equity markets after Europe took measures to battle its debt crisis.
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