via CNN Skydiver Felix Baumgartner landed safely on the ground Sunday after a record-shattering jump from the edge of space. “He made it — tears of joy from Mission Control,” the team said in a live feed. Baumgartner left the capsule attached to a huge helium balloon at 128,000 feet — 24 miles up — […]
A Texas mother who super-glued her 2-year-old daughter’s hands to a wall and beat her over potty training problems was sentenced Friday morning to 99 years in prison, a Dallas County felony records department district clerk said. Elizabeth Escalona, 23, will be eligible to ask for parole in 30 years. She pleaded guilty in July […]
via CNN Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter — who embodied a dying breed of liberal Republicanism, switching to the Democratic Party at the twilight of his political career — died after a lengthy battle with cancer, his family announced Sunday. Specter died of complications from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma on Sunday morning at his home in […]
Shi’dea Lane , 25, says that bus driver, Artis Hughes, 59, instigated the incident that led to the uppercut watched around the world and she…
via BBC News Actor Tom Hanks will make his Broadway debut as a tabloid journalist in the Nora Ephron play, Lucky Man. Hanks previously collaborated with screenwriter Ephron, who died in June, on the hit films Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail. The new play follows the rise and fall of real-life journalist […]
via BBC News Cyber-attacks could inflict as much damage on the US as the physical attacks on 11 September 2001, the US defence secretary has warned. Leon Panetta said the country was preparing to take pre-emptive action if a serious cyber-attack was imminent. He said US intelligence showed “foreign actors” were targeting control systems […]
via BBC News The final journey of the retired US space shuttle Endeavour through Los Angeles aboard a giant trolley has been delayed by trees along the route. The spacecraft that once reached 17,000mph (28,160km/h) has been trundling down the city’s famously low-level boulevards at a stately 2mph. But technical hitches mean it did […]
