Thursday 17 May 2012
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CHANTILLY: Discovery on Thursday became the first spaceship from the retired US shuttle fleet to enter its permanent home as a museum artifact, marking a solemn end to the 30-year manned spaceflight program.
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates will have his life story shared in a new comic book.
LONDON: The St Cuthbert gospel, Europe’s oldest intact book, will remain in Britain after a record-breaking fundraising campaign by the British Library, it said Tuesday.
ATHENS: The cash-strapped Greek state is now looking to a new way of raising revenues — renting out its policemen at an hourly rate of 30 euros, with patrol cars going for 10 euros more.
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan: Turkmenistan’s authoritarian leader has proven he doesn’t only win elections easily, coming first in a car race he wasn’t even supposed to take part in.