SpaceX rocket launch aborted at last second


The countdown reached all the way to practically zero Saturday morning for the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, but there was an automatic shutdown by on-board computers, a NASA spokesman said.

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Iran and Syria at Center of First Talks at G-8 Summit

In first working talks. leaders grapple with how to prevent Iranian nuke and more forceful response to Syria

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    London 2012 Olympic torch relay starts in Britain

    The flame arrived in Britain from Greece on FridaySailor Ben Ainslie was the first torchbearer as the Olympic flame began its 70-day journey around Britain and Ireland on Saturday ahead of the 2012 London Games.


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    Angolan opposition hails court win, plans rallies

    LISBON (Reuters) – Angolan opposition party UNITA expects tens of thousands to join nationwide rallies on Saturday to call for a fair election and celebrate a court win against the government over the head of the election commission, a party spokesman said on Friday. Angola’s Supreme Court on Thursday annulled the appointment of the country’s electoral commission chief, a nomination which the opposition had criticised but which the ruling MPLA party defended as impartial. UNITA said the January appointment of Susana Ingles undermined electoral independence as she was close to the MPLA. … more…

    China activist Chen ‘at Beijing airport’

    BLIND Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng says he is at Beijing’s airport and that he believes he will be flying to New York.




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    Two arrested in US over Chinese student killings

    USC students Ming Qu and Ying Wu, both 23, were shot in the early hours of April 11, as they sat in a car in LAUS police and federal investigators arrested two men over the killings of two Chinese graduate students which shocked Los Angeles last month, officials said.


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    Two arrested in US over Chinese student killings

    USC students Ming Qu and Ying Wu, both 23, were shot in the early hours of April 11, as they sat in a car in LAUS police and federal investigators arrested two men over the killings of two Chinese graduate students which shocked Los Angeles last month, officials said.


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    London 2012 Olympic torch relay starts in Britain

    The flame arrived in Britain from Greece on FridaySailor Ben Ainslie was the first torchbearer as the Olympic flame began its 70-day journey around Britain and Ireland on Saturday ahead of the 2012 London Games.


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    China’s Chen ‘set to fly to US’

    Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, whose stay at the US embassy sparked a diplomatic crisis, says he is at Beijing airport expecting to go to the US. more…

    China’s Chen ‘set to fly to US’

    Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, whose stay at the US embassy sparked a diplomatic crisis, says he is at Beijing airport expecting to go to the US. more…