The Daily Mail: The spectacular stunt, captured on YouTube, was carried out by the Red Bull skydive team 2,100 metres above the mountains in Styria, Austria. And they look mightily relieved as they returned to their airfield.
CNN: According to NASA, a meteor appears when a meteoroid — a particle, chunk of metal or stony matter — enters the Earth’s atmosphere from outer space. “Air friction heats the meteoroid so that it glows and creates a shining
Obama: “Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower, and when conflicts break out, one way or another we get pulled into them.”
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The New York Times: The closing was among the most sweeping peacetime restrictions ordered in British airspace. It left airplanes stranded on the tarmac as the rolling cloud
KFOR: A religious controversy is swirling around a church on Oklahoma City’s northwest side. Some say a giant painting of Christ hanging in the sanctuary of Saint Charles Borromeo Catholic church and school is pornographic. Others feel the painting merely
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CNN: Unknown attackers shot a local politician at the podium of a public meeting in northern India Wednesday, police said. Hanuman Sharan Shukla, member of a local district council, was gunned down at an event in Uttar Pradesh state’s Gonda
KSTU: The animated series South Park has been criticized in the past for its take on Scientology, Islam, and the LDS Church. And the LDS Church’s Book of Mormon is said to be their next venture, as it will be
NewsBusters: During a discussion of John McCain’s drift rightward on Wednesday’s Morning Joe, MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle smeared the Arizona Senator as more scared of Republican primary challenger J.D. Hayworth than he was of his Vietnamese torturers. Barnicle mocked, “The
AFP: International news agencies locked in a TV rights row with Cannes film festival organisers announced a boycott Wednesday of one of the cinema world’s key events — the list of movies selected to screen at the film fest. Agence
NewsBusters: At the top of the 3PM ET hour on MSNBC, anchor Peter Alexander reported on a tea party event being held in Boston and grilled conservative author Kevin Jackson on “the fringe elements who show up for these rallies.
Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Fox News: And the king of pork is … Sen. Thad Cochran. The Mississippi Republican ranks at the top this year of the Citizens Against Government Waste’s list of congressional earmarkers. Cochran, the
AP: It’s time that mustached Americans got in on the stimulus money. At least that’s the proposal being pushed by tax policy professor John Yeutter and the St. Louis-based American Mustache Institute. The tongue-in-cheek group dubs itself “the world’s only
AP: A protest over a historic tomb on government land in the Indonesian capital turned bloody on Wednesday, with 90 wounded in clashes between riot police and hundreds of demonstrators armed with machetes and sticks.
