NASA launches spacecraft Juno on five-year trip to Jupiter

Elisabeth Murdoch delays taking seat on News Corp.board A sun-powered robotic explorer named Juno is rocketing toward Jupiter on a fresh quest to discover the secret recipe for making planets. Elisabeth Murdoch delays taking seat on News Corp.board Elisabeth Murdoch, the 42-year-old daughter of News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch, has delayed taking her appointed seat on the News Corp.board. Why S&P cut US credit rating was cut from 'AAA' to 'AA+': Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) on Friday downgraded the United States' credit rating for the first time in the history of the ratings. US credit rating: The United States has lost its sterling credit rating.Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) on Friday lowered the nation's AAA rating for the first time since granting it in 1917. Security forces opened fire on protesters, killing at least 10, as tens of thousands poured into streets across Syria on Friday, chanting for the fall of President Bashar Assad and defying a fierce military siege of Hama, where tanks shelled residential districts around dawn. A polar bear on Friday mauled a group of young British campers on a trip to a remote Arctic archipelago, killing a 17-year-old boy and injuring four others, before a member of the expedition shot the bear dead. Somali government troops opened fire at hungry civilians on Friday, killing at least seven people, as both groups made a grab for the food at a U.N.distribution site in the capital of this famine-stricken country, witnesses said. Scientists say a new lava flow has broken out at Kilauea, a volcano in Hawaii that has been continuously erupting for nearly three decades. The courtroom remarks of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak have reportedly become popular cell phone ringtones in his native country. Many parents and grandparents in this mountainous region of terraced rice and sweet potato fields have long known to grab their babies and find the nearest hiding place whenever family planning officials show up.Too many infants, they say, have been snatched by officials, never to be seen again. A Libyan rebel spokesman says his side has unconfirmed reports that Moammar Gaddafi's youngest son has been killed in a NATO airstrike on the western town of Zlitan. Thai lawmakers chose U.S.-educated businesswoman Yingluck Shinawatra as the country's first female prime minister Friday, setting the stage for the 44-year-old political novice to take charge of a volatile nation that's been deeply divided since her brother was ousted in a 2006 coup. An Australian radio show host facing criticism for using a derogatory word against India and calling river Ganga a "junkyard" has issued an apology.
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