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A roundup of the main events that have happened over the past week.
Add commentsHeavy fighting on Thursday night between forces loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and supporters of the al-Ahmar clan, has caused widespread damage to buildings in the capital Sanaa.
One year has passed since the Mars-500 project was launched. The project is designed to simulate a flight to the red planet. It will take 250 days to reach Mars, stay for short time there and then 240 days back.
The sight of flattened homes, peeled-off roofs and widespread damage stunned New Englanders after deadly tornadoes swept through Massachusetts, striking an area of the country that rarely sees such severe twisters.2
A Russian honor guard joined President Dmitry Medvedev for a parade in Rome marking the 150th anniversary of Italy's unification. The Russian leader was among 80 distinguished guests who watched the parade.
At around 11:10 p.m. Moscow time [19:10 GMT] on Thursday shells began to explode in an artillery depot near the village of Pugachevo in Volga region's Republic of Udmurtia. The facility belongs to the Defense Ministry's missile and artillery directorate and is tasked mainly with weapons disposal.
"Follow your heart and fulfill your dreams. Follow your basic instinct and... end up in jail!" This simple axiom, inexistent just a month ago, could easily become the watchword of our times in the wake of an allegedly illegal sexual "transaction" in a New York hotel room involving erstwhile IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn and an immigrant chamber maid from Ghana.
Heavy sandstorms blanketed Iraq's capital Baghdad and other provinces on Thursday, causing traffic chaos and flooding hospitals with people suffering from respiratory problems.
More than 40 red pandas have moved into their new home in the Pu'er National Park in southwest China's Yunnan Province, making the park the largest red panda breeding centre in China. Among the 44 red pandas at the Pu'er National Park, a white-furred one named Huanhuan is particularly eye-catching as he is the only white-furred red panda in China today.
June 1, 2011 marked 10 years since the command post (CP) of the Russian Space Forces was established. The military calls the CP its “nerve center.” The CP is responsible for managing a constellation of military and dual-use satellites, the ground infrastructure of space and missile defense systems, and military units for the launch and control of space vehicles.
In an interview with RIA Novosti’s Samir Shakhbaz, Felix Stanevsky, head of the Caucasus department of the Institute of CIS countries, claims that Georgia will inevitably face major upheavals sooner or later due to its dramatic internal situation. Georgia is living on borrowed money and its economy with exaggerated achievements is built on PR, he believes.
Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic was placed in a United Nations detention unit on Tuesday to await trial on genocide charges -16 years after he was indicted in the killing of 8-thousand Muslim men and boys in the worst massacre of civilians in Europe since World War II.
Space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts returned to Earth on Wednesday, ending the next-to-last mission in NASA's 30-year programme with a safe landing in the middle of the night. The official tally for NASA's youngest shuttle after 25 flights, nearly half of them to the space station: 170 crew members, 299 days in space and 4,672 orbits of Earth, and 122.8 (m) million miles.
On May 31, 1891, in Russia’s Far Eastern port of Vladivostok, the future Russian Emperor Nicholas II, then Tsesarevich, launched the construction of the Great Siberian Railway, now called the Trans-Siberian Railway. The railway was built in the wild and sparsely populated taiga simultaneously from the west and from the east. In those days, it took a train 12 days to travel the 9,000-plus kilometers from Moscow to Vladivostok.
Historical reenactment clubs from Moscow took part in the “History Street” festival in Moscow. Area plots representing eight ages from Ancient Rus to the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic were set up on Tverskoi Boulevard.
High on a hill, this looks like many other examples of elegant modern architecture. But this house is built with a special ingredient, hemp. This is one of Africa's first modular hemp houses and is a pilot project that could take off.
Martin Aeronautics Company in New Zealand has developed a one manned flying Jetpack.
Tanner Foust -- a three-time X Games gold medalist and professional stunt driver, broke world record by jumping 101 meter in Indy 500, one of the prestigious motor sport races in the USA since in the category of four wells car.
Dramatic footage was captured on Monday of a series of powerful waterspouts near the coastal suburb of Terrigal, on Australia's New South Wales coast.The natural wonders came as strong winds and heavy rain also lashed other parts of the state, causing flash flooding and traffic chaos in Sydney.
The Adunok-M, a remote-controlled observation and weapon system on display at the MILEX-2011 show in Minsk, was developed in Belarus.