CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Breaking new ground in the history of space
exploration, women are at the helm of the International Space
Station and the space shuttle at the same time, as they orbit the
Earth.
Pamela Melroy, a 46-year-old retired US Air
Force colonel, was in the commander’s seat when shuttle Discovery
blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral,
Florida, on Tuesday.
HANOI: Bird flu has killed almost 300 ducks in central Vietnam,
where the latest outbreak was reported on a private farm, the animal
health department said Thursday.
LOS ANGELES: Fires raging across California have caused more than
one billion dollars in property damage and left three people dead,
officials said Wednesday, as a lull in winds allowed firefighters to
make their first significant progress in combating the flames.
WASHINGTON: The US terrorist watch list includes more than 755,000
names and continues to grow, the US Government Accountability Office
said Wednesday.
JAKARTA: A strong earthquake measuring 7.0 struck off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra Island on Thursday, briefly triggering panic and a tsunami alert, the Indonesia meteorological agency said.
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