A problem that struck the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday will delay the final space shuttle mission to service it, moving the launching from next month to next year, NASA officials said Monday.
During five spacewalks, the astronauts were set to install two new instruments and repair the telescope’s best camera and a spectrograph, both of [...]
President Hu Jintao is set to arrive in Seoul today for the start of a weeklong official visit to the Republic of Korea (ROK), Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
The Chinese leader’s trip comes amid expectations of closer cooperation and ties, including trade with the ROK and regional security with its Central Asian neighbors.
Lee Dong-kwan, spokesman for the [...]
The cruellest corner of rugby’s lexicon is dedicated to damnation by faint praise, and it can surely hold no more withering euphemism than the ‘journeyman’ tag that is routinely applied to decent but clearly limited players.
Just ask Matt Mustchin, the 31-year-old Edinburgh forward to whom the term has had a limpet-like attachment for most of [...]
The Israeli Embassy in Cairo says a delegation of elderly Egyptian-born Jews was forced to cancel a visit to Egypt because they were unable to find accommodation following a local media storm over their trip.
Israeli press attache Shani Cooper-Zubida says that the group had just come to visit Jewish sites in Egypt and hear a [...]
His picture hangs in the Sherpa museum, above the terraced village of Namche Bazaar, and almost everyone in the Solu-Khumbu valley knows who he is. He is stopped often, sometimes by people just wanting to shake his hand. A Western climber we meet on the trail stops to hug him. She tells us confidently, You [...]
The gathering of defence, state department, coastguard, law enforcement and foreign affairs officials, held in secret at the New Zealand embassy early in 2006, came up with a plan called the matrix process to see whether both countries might be able to cooperate in more areas.
Since that meeting and others in Washington and Wellington, New [...]
The gathering of defence, state department, coastguard, law enforcement and foreign affairs officials, held in secret at the New Zealand embassy early in 2006, came up with a plan called the matrix process to see whether both countries might be able to cooperate in more areas.
Since that meeting and others in Washington and Wellington, New [...]
They come and make documentaries about you (The March of the Penguins), they make animated movies of you singing and bopping and grooving (Happy Feet) and all you really want is a normal life: fish, sex, snow, somewhere to bring up the kids.
Dolphins, till recently, were more modish, made into crystal dingle-dangles, ornaments and soft [...]
By the time youve settled in and crammed in a day trip, its time to leave.
But for two nights and three heavenly days during the Christmas holidays, Copthorne Hotel and Resort Solway Park Wairarapa had every base covered for our family getaway.
With the triple threat of Caleb, 7, Olivia, 5, and Brad, 1, we had [...]
Seated high in the rafts stern, Paul Button narrows his eyes as he searches for the best line, the smartest angle to take us safely through the maelstrom of tumbling, turbulent white water ahead.
Then the urgent command: Forward paddle, go hard.
Now our chief guides paddle is flashing like a conductors baton. Wed better do the [...]
