World May 14 Update: Violent protest erupts as death toll rises to 245 in Turkish coal mine explosion Turkish officials raised the death toll to 245 Wednesday as rescue units continue to search for 120 miners still trapped underground. A coal mine in western Turkey collapsed after a power distribution unit exploded Tuesday.
World May 13 Six Ukrainian troops killed in pro-Russian ambush At least 30 pro-Russian separatists ambushed Ukrainian troops Tuesday, killing six soldiers and wounding eight others. Armed with grenade launchers and automatic weapons, the pro-Russia insurgency attacked the troops nearby the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, Ukraine’s defense ministry said…
Nation May 09 Model aircraft nearly collided with U.S. airliner in March The pilot told officials that he saw a small, camouflaged fixed-wing aircraft about 2,300 feet above the ground fly "so close to his jet that he was sure he had collided with it," said Jim Williams, manager of the FAA's…
World May 06 U.S. will send team to Nigeria to help search for kidnapped girls Islamist extremists known as Boko Haram have kidnapped eight girls, aged 12 to 15, from a village in northeastern Nigeria, local police said Tuesday. The group’s raid of the village comes a day after they claimed responsibility for the abduction…
Nation May 05 Drones take flight in Alaska to survey wildlife Alaska’s drone test site, one of six U.S. research locations selected to develop guidelines for “unmanned aircraft systems,” or drones, became operational Monday, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The FAA authorized the University of Alaska in Fairbanks to conduct wildlife…
Science May 05 Feds fund research to create a climate-proof chicken Researchers believe that the key to feeding a growing global population is a chicken that can take the heat. A team of scientists from the University of Delaware studied the genetic makeup of the African naked-neck chicken and whether its…
World May 05 Clashes in Ukraine leave 4 dead, 30 wounded The Associated Press and other news outlets reported heavy gunfire and explosions around the eastern city of Slovyansk, where Kiev's army mounted its first major offensive Friday against armed pro-Russian insurgents.
World May 02 Pro-Russia forces shoot down 2 Ukrainian helicopters, 38 killed in Odessa building fire as fighting erupts in Ukraine In an effort to regain control of the eastern city of Slovyansk, the Ukrainian government launched its first major offensive against pro-Russian separatists Friday, the Associated Press reports. The fighting has claimed at least three lives so far.
Science May 02 Star cluster flung from distant galaxy at 2 million mph Astronomers have discovered a cluster of several thousand stars that was ejected out of a distant galaxy at a stellar speed of more than two million miles per hour. The group of “runaway stars,” named HVGC-1 for “hypervelocity globular cluster,”…
Science Apr 30 On tiny racetrack, scientists test self-driving cars of the future In a robotics lab at George Washington University, there’s a small-scale race track, complete with a loop-the-loop. A battery-powered car hurls itself around the room, flipping over jumps and around the vertical spiral. “They are really robust, so when a…