Section: Dunya TV (Pakistan)
Three astronauts land back on Earth from space station
ALMATY (AFP) – Three astronauts, from the United States, Russia and Japan, on Friday successfully completed a rare nighttime landing on Earth in the wintry Kazakh steppe after returning from the International Space Station.They have landed safely and the recovery team have found them. Everything is according to plan, a spokesman for Russian...
SpaceX to launch rocket Dec 19, six months after blast
WASHINGTON (AFP) – SpaceX on Thursday announced plans to launch its Falcon 9 on December 19, its first mission since a massive explosion after liftoff destroyed the rocket and its space station cargo six months ago.SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that the company is preparing for a static fire — an engine test on the launch pad...
Ukraine arrests insurgents who ‘planned terror attacks’
KIEV (AFP) – Ukraines security service said on Thursday that it had arrested an insurgent group involving three Russian nationals that had stockpiled bombs and planned to carry out terrorist attacks, in raids that cost the life of a special forces officer.The SBU security service claimed Moscow — accused by Kiev and the west of...
Football: Garmash sends Dynamo into Champions League play-offs
KIEV (AFP) – A goal by midfielder Denis Garmash put Ukraines reigning champions Dynamo Kiev into the Champions League last 16 with a 1-0 home win over Maccabi Tel-Aviv here on Wednesday.The narrow win behind closed doors lifted the capital club up into second, two points behind the English side Chelsea, who won Group G after beating Porto...
Football: Arsenal, Chelsea through to Champions League last 16
PARIS (AFP) – Olivier Giroud was Arsenals hero as the Gunners and Chelsea succeeded on Wednesday where Manchester United failed a day earlier to advance to the draw for the last 16 of the Champions League.The London clubs celebrated on the final night of group stage action as Roma, Dynamo Kiev and the Belgian underdogs Gent also secured...
Orbital cargo ship blasts off toward space station
MIAMI (AFP) – Orbital ATK on Sunday launched its Cygnus cargo ship to resupply astronauts at the International Space Station, one year after a sudden rocket accident delivered a setback to commercial spaceflight.Liftoff, on the shoulders of Atlas, NASA spokesman Mike Curie said as the unmanned spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral,...
Social media companies step up battle against militant propaganda
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Facebook, Google and Twitter are stepping up efforts to combat online propaganda and recruiting by Islamic militants, but the Internet companies are doing it quietly to avoid the perception that they are helping the authorities police the Web.On Friday, Facebook Inc said it took down a profile that the company believed...
Lawmakers in blacked-out Crimea: Name your boys Generator
MOSCOW (AP) — Lawmakers in Russia-occupied Crimea, which is grappling with a nearly two-week-long blackout, are suggesting parents name their newborn boys Generator to mark the ordeal.Unknown attackers blew up electricity pylons in Ukraine on Nov. 22, leaving the peninsula largely without power. After Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014, it began...
Kerry urges NATO to ‘step up’ IS fight, praises Britain
BRUSSELS (AFP) – US Secretary of State John Kerry urged NATO allies Wednesday to intensify the fight against Islamic State, singling out Britain for praise as it looks set to join airstrikes against the jihadist group in Syria.Kerry meanwhile said that Russia could be an extremely constructive player in finding an eventual peace settlement...
Orbital to fly first space cargo mission since 2014 explosion
MIAMI (AFP) – Orbital ATK on Wednesday counted down to its first space launch since a sudden explosion last year destroyed its Antares rocket and cargo craft bound for the International Space Station.Thursdays planned liftoff of the unmanned Cygnus cargo ship uses a different rocket — an Atlas V made by United Launch Alliance —...
