America's hit-for-kill missile test fails, not many are mourning
Rarely has a fiasco been celebrated so universally. The US failed to hit and destroy a target warhead in space in a dumbed-down version of a proposed National Missile Defence System, much to the delight of a vast constituency of skeptics and peaceniks.



Super-hardy microbes suggest life may exist elsewhere
In a finding that could have an impact on the search for life on Mars and other planets, scientists say they have detected hardy microbes that seem to thrive in the radiation, cold and darkness at the South Pole.



Police block rally by Nawaz Sharif's wife
Pakistani police moved to prevent a rally on Saturday that was to be led by the wife of deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, witnesses said.



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