Chinese astronauts return from space Spaceflight Now - 13 hours ago (Web promotion)

Chinese astronauts return from space Spaceflight Now - 13 hours ago (Web promotion)

Chinese astronauts return from space
Spaceflight Now - 13 hours ago BY STEPHEN CLARK. Returning home to a hero's welcome, two astronauts parachuted to a soft landing in the steppes of northern China shrouded in a veil of pre-dawn darkness to punctuate a five-day flight in space

Israel Tightens Restrictions After Attacks Kill Three
New York Times (subscription) - 2 hours ago JERUSALEM, Oct. 17 -- Israel restored restrictions on travel in the occupied West Bank and broke off security contacts with the Palestinian Authority today after Palestinian gunmen killed three young Israelis

Fog lifts at box office
Globe and Mail - 6 hours ago By DAVID GERMAIN. Los Angeles � The crowds were not quite as thick as pea soup, but the horror remake The Fog pulled in enough fans to win a close race at the weekend box office with a $12.2-million (US) debut.

All but two Iraqi provinces say yes
Australian - 57 minutes ago A HIGHER than expected turnout by Sunni voters appears to have failed to stop passage of Iraq's draft constitution, with early counts suggesting a yes vote in all but two of the country's 18 provinces. The

Town Mourns Band Bus Crash Victims
CBS News - 2 hours ago (CBS/AP) A high school band director known for making band fun was among five people killed when a busload of students and chaperones returning from a marching band competition crashed into an overturned tractor-trailer on Sunday, authorities said.

Samsung-Apple joint investment talks go nowhere
Macworld - 4 hours ago By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. held talks with Apple earlier this year about a possible joint-investment in flash memory chip production but the talks failed to go anywhere, a spokeswoman for Samsung said on Monday.