With Russian help, Europe prepares to search for life on Mars
With Russian help, Europe prepares to search for life on Mars By Irene Klotz PARIS (Reuters) – The European Space Agency signed final contracts with Thales Alenia Space Italy for work on a pair of missions to assess if the planet Mars has or ever had life, officials said at the Paris Airshow this week. [...]
June 19, 2013
NYC mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn’s memoir so far sells just 100 copies
NYC mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn’s memoir so far sells just 100 copies Christine Quinn’s memoir sold just 100 copies during its first week on sale. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images) Christine Quinn is vying to be New York City’s first female and first openly gay mayor, but even as polls suggest she still remains the candidate to [...]
June 19, 2013
The Greatest Heists In History [Infographic]
Or, how to steal the Mona Lisa in a few easy steps. By Colin Lecher Posted 06.19.2013 at 2:00 pm Well-executed heists make for good stories, but history’s greatest heists, as this infographic shows, are so unbelievable they’re almost art. Take, for example, this: a man on board a Portland-to-Seattle flight in 1971 passed a [...]
June 19, 2013
Police at Patriots tight end’s home for 2nd day
Police at Patriots tight end’s home for 2nd day NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — State police returned to the home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on Wednesday, two days after a body was found about a mile away. Two troopers knocked on the door of Hernandez’s sprawling house in an upscale subdivision [...]
June 19, 2013
Best-selling author Vince Flynn dies at age 47
Best-selling author Vince Flynn dies at age 47 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Best-selling author Vince Flynn, who wrote the Mitch Rapp counterterrorism thriller series and sold more than 15 million books in the U.S. alone, died Wednesday in Minnesota after a more than two-year battle with prostate cancer, according to friends and his publisher. He was [...]
June 19, 2013
Wall St. edges lower as Fed statement looms
Wall St. edges lower as Fed statement looms By Alison Griswold NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks dipped on Wednesday as investors awaited a Federal Reserve statement that could provide clues about the central bank’s future stimulus efforts, a key to the market’s current rally. The Fed will release a policy statement at 2 p.m. which [...]
June 19, 2013