11 Apr

Soyuz Takes First Korean Into Space

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — A Russian capsule carrying two cosmonauts and Korea’s first astronaut blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Tuesday, en route to the international space station.
The Soyuz TMA-12 craft lifted off on time, roaring into the evening skies over Kazakhstan’s barren steppes before turning down range and entering its preliminary orbit about 10 minutes [...]

11 Apr

Soyuz Takes First Korean Into Space

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — A Russian capsule carrying two cosmonauts and Korea’s first astronaut blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Tuesday, en route to the international space station.
The Soyuz TMA-12 craft lifted off on time, roaring into the evening skies over Kazakhstan’s barren steppes before turning down range and entering its preliminary orbit about 10 minutes [...]

10 Apr

Soyuz Takes First Korean Into Space

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — A Russian capsule carrying two cosmonauts and Korea’s first astronaut blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Tuesday, en route to the international space station.
The Soyuz TMA-12 craft lifted off on time, roaring into the evening skies over Kazakhstan’s barren steppes before turning down range and entering its preliminary orbit about 10 minutes [...]

10 Apr

Soyuz Takes First Korean Into Space

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — A Russian capsule carrying two cosmonauts and Korea’s first astronaut blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Tuesday, en route to the international space station.
The Soyuz TMA-12 craft lifted off on time, roaring into the evening skies over Kazakhstan’s barren steppes before turning down range and entering its preliminary orbit about 10 minutes [...]

07 Apr

Miracles of Life: Shaghai to Shepparton

JG. Ballard famously characterised himself as a weatherman:
“I read the sky and see the coming storms.” But, like Walter
Benjamin’s tragic “angel of history”, he has been forced to look
backwards at the cataclysmic storm behind him. For Ballard, that
storm is the Pacific War, the source of the questions with which he
has grappled so creatively all his [...]

07 Apr

Zidane to display skills in Sydney

ZINEDINE Zidane, World Cup winner and three-time FIFA World
Player of the Year, will play a match in Australia in June.
Zidane, who won the World Cup with France in 1998 and was
sensationally sent off in the 2006 World Cup final after
headbutting Italian Marco Materazzi, will make a whirlwind 72-hour
trip to Sydney that will include an exhibition [...]

07 Apr

Zidane to display skills in Sydney

ZINEDINE Zidane, World Cup winner and three-time FIFA World
Player of the Year, will play a match in Australia in June.
Zidane, who won the World Cup with France in 1998 and was
sensationally sent off in the 2006 World Cup final after
headbutting Italian Marco Materazzi, will make a whirlwind 72-hour
trip to Sydney that will include an exhibition [...]

05 Apr

Zidane to display skills in Sydney

ZINEDINE Zidane, World Cup winner and three-time FIFA World
Player of the Year, will play a match in Australia in June.
Zidane, who won the World Cup with France in 1998 and was
sensationally sent off in the 2006 World Cup final after
headbutting Italian Marco Materazzi, will make a whirlwind 72-hour
trip to Sydney that will include an exhibition [...]

05 Apr

Women drop needlepoint to investigate prostitution

Pensioners Jean Johnson, 62, and Shirley Landells, 73, of the WI in Hampshire want to learn how New Zealand prostitutes run their own businesses.
They also want to talk to prostitutes to see how the profession operates, The Telegraph newspaper in London reported.
Mrs Johnson, a housewife from the leafy village of Four Marks, admitted that she [...]

05 Apr

Shark bait not on Canes’ menu

%26bull; Crowd sizes a sorry sight
Hurricanes flanker Jerry Collins took Sharks pivot Frederic Michalak for a tour of Porirua on Wednesday, while manager Tony Ward has had a cafes worth of coffee with his old coach, John Plumtree.
And both teams have been singing from the same songsheet as they talked about the pressure going into [...]