Space Science

The zoo in Novosibirsk, Russia's third-largest city, is home to a unique animal — the liliger. That's a big cat breed where the father is a lion and the mother is a lion-tiger hybrid, called a liger.

The representatives of the Alphasat/Alphabus public--private partnership met on 18 June, 2013, to celebrate the project. Each partner spoke about their contribution to the project during a press conference in the ESA Pavilon. The partner representatives were Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA DG; Magali Vaissière, ESA Director of TIA; Ruy Pinto, Inmarsat CTO; Eric Béranger, Astrium CEO; Sami Benamar, Vice President of Development at Thales Alenia Space; Jean-Yves Le Gall, CNES President; David Parker, UK Space Agency Chief Executive and Jan Wörner, DLR Chairmain. The roundtable was followed by a question and answer from the media. Video courtesy ESA.

Young star suggests our sun was a feisty toddler #space

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Al-Qaida-linked militants detonated multiple bomb blasts and breached the main U.N. compound in Mogadishu on Wednesday, sparking gun battles with security forces that killed at least 12 people. U.N. personnel who reached the compound's secure bunker all survived, though officials hinted not all reached that bunker.

A new film claims the official government report on the crash of TWA Flight 800 in 1996 is an elaborate fabrication, but the most shocking part of the story is that charges are being leveled by some of the very investigators who put the report together. Six experts who appear in the film were members of the National Transportation Safety Board investigation team that concluded the crash was an accident, but they now claim they were silenced by their superiors. The movies, "TWA Flight 800" will debut on EPIX TV next month, on the 17-year anniversary of the crash.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's president says he will not pursue peace talks with the Taliban unless the United States steps out of the negotiations and the militant group stops its violent attacks on the ground.

BERLIN (AP) — Trying to tamp down concerns about government over-reach, President Barack Obama on Wednesday defended U.S. Internet and phone surveillance programs as narrowly targeted efforts that have saved lives and thwarted at least 50 terror threats.

Venus? Winds Are Mysteriously Speeding Up #space

Stargazing team captures Draco Trio in stunning photo.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Tens of thousands of Brazilians again flooded the streets of the country's biggest city to raise a collective cry against a longstanding lament — people are weighed down by high taxes and high prices but get low-quality public services and a system of government infected with corruption.