Provides the latest RSS feeds for Space Science News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Malaysia Sun.com http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/cat/89d96798a39564bd/ en-us Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:55 -0400 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:55 -0400 30 A female Chinese astronaut Thursday said from space that she and her crewmates haven't seen any UFOs during the trip. Female astronaut Wang Yaping, one of the three crew members of Shenzhou-10 spacecraft, greeted about 330 primary and middle school students at a Beijing high school through a live video feed system, about 340 km above the Earth, reported Xinhua. "Through the front windows, we ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215318313/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:30:02 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215318313/scat/89d96798a39564bd Scientists using data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission believe they have solved a mystery from one of the solar system's coldest regions-a permanently shadowed crater on the moon. The space scientists from the University of New Hampshire and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have explained how energetic particles penetrating lunar soil can create molecular hydrogen ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215314247/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:30:03 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215314247/scat/89d96798a39564bd A Labour politician has claimed that he meets his alien lover four times a year for sex sessions on a spaceship that's orbiting the Earth. Simon Parkes, who sits on Whitby Town Council, even alleged that he has fathered a child called Zarka with his extraterrestrial mistress, who he has named the Cat Queen, the Sun reported. The 53-year-old driving instructor from North Yorkshire described his ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215314250/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:30:03 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215314250/scat/89d96798a39564bd A new 1.3-billion-pixel image from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity allows viewers to zoom in and investigate one part of the Red Planet in great detail. The huge mosaic stitches together nearly 900 exposures taken by cameras onboard Curiosity and shows details of the landscape along the rover's route. "It gives a sense of place and really shows off the cameras' capabilities," said Bob Deen of the ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215314244/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:30:02 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215314244/scat/89d96798a39564bd On July 19, 2013, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be turned to image Saturn and its entire ring system during a total eclipse of the Sun, as it has done twice before during its previous 9 years in orbit. But this time, the images that will be collected have been specifically designed for something very special. They will capture, in natural color, a glimpse of our own planet next to Saturn and ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215291440/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:00:02 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215291440/scat/89d96798a39564bd PARIS The European Space Agency signed final contracts with Thales Alenia Space Italy for work on a pair of missions to assess if the planet Mars has or ever had life, officials said at the Paris Airshow this week. Until last year, the ExoMars program was a joint project between ESA and the U.S. space agency NASA. But NASA dropped out, citing budget problems. The Russian space ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306771/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:15:04 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306771/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Ed Andrieski - A military C-130 drops a load of fire retardant on a wildfire near Pine, Colo., on Wednesday, June 19, 2013. A new wildfire in the foothills southwest of Denver forced the ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215321267/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:03:14 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215321267/scat/89d96798a39564bd Gandolfini will instead be honored with a tribute "remembering his career and talent." Gandolfini died Wednesday in Rome, according to HBO and Gandolfini's ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215321268/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:03:07 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215321268/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool - George Zimmerman, right, talks to co-counsel Don West, during questioning of potential jurors in Seminole circuit court on the eighth day of his ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215321269/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:03:05 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215321269/scat/89d96798a39564bd At Frankfurt Airport, the teddy bear even gets a boarding pass: complete with name, destination, flight code, and seat number. And why not--after all, teddy and three-year-old Sara are inseparable companions! This is just one small example of how Frankfurt Airport looks after its little passengers. When kids are happy, their parents can relax and the whole family can look forward to an enjoyable ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215321652/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:51:41 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215321652/scat/89d96798a39564bd China 's fifth manned space mission, Shenzhou-10, is scheduled to end around 25 or 26 June. The crew is also expected to attempt a manual docking later on Thursday. This will involve getting back inside their Shenzhou capsule, unhooking from Tiangong and then flying around the lab to re-attach the capsule to the laboratory. 'Sixteen sunrises' Ms Yang used difference experiments to ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215320243/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:14:41 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215320243/scat/89d96798a39564bd Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers is to receive the prestigious Russian Order of Friendship. The award will be presented to him by president Vladimir Putin on July 3 to mark the longest ever European manned space flight. Kuipers spent six months on the ISS international space station last year, returning to Earth on July ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215320642/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:03:50 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215320642/scat/89d96798a39564bd Revenue Service, illegal immigration, and the Obama administration, in Washington. After secretive talks, key senators expressed optimism Wednesday night that they were closing in on a bipartisan agreement to toughen the border security requirements in immigration legislation that also offers a path to citizenship to millions living in the country illegally. (AP Photo/J. Scott ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215320270/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:57:08 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215320270/scat/89d96798a39564bd helped return President Barack Obama to office and control of the Senate to Democrats, House Speaker John Boehner is the face of the GOP effort to bite into that base of support _ or at least stop alienating a demographic that accounts for 17 percent of the nation. That means getting a new policy on immigration, perhaps the most delicate political dance of Boehner's career. (AP Photo/J. ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215320272/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:57:07 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215320272/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Heritage Auctions - This June 17, 2013 provided by Heritage Auctions, shows the pair of leg irons, or shackles, believed to be those used on John Brown during his incarceration at the ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215320273/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:57:06 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215320273/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Martha Irvine - A young batter takes a swing as a father who's a coach supervises at a youth baseball game in Buffalo Grove, Ill. on Monday June 10, 2013. Earlier in the month, park ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215320274/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:57:05 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215320274/scat/89d96798a39564bd ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- The Afghan Taliban say they are ready to hand over a U.S. soldier held captive since 2009 in exchange for five of their senior operatives being held at the Guantanamo Bay ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215320418/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:32:31 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215320418/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wang Yaping, China's second female astronaut, is one of three crew members sent to space last week on the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft. She delivered her lecture from the Tiangong-1 experimental space lab, which China views as a prototype for a full-fledged space station. Wang participated in a question-and-answer session with students in a Beijing school. She also conducted a series of ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215319367/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:10:28 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215319367/scat/89d96798a39564bd BEIJING -- Astronauts struck floating martial arts poses, twirled gyroscopes and manipulated wobbling globes of water during a lecture Thursday from China's orbiting space station that's part of efforts to popularize the space program among young people. Wang Yaping demonstrated principles of weightlessness and took questions live from among the 330 grade school kids gathered at a ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215319171/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:06:10 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215319171/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Stephen Chernin, File - FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2007 file photo, actor James Gandolfini poses during a photo shoot in New York. Gandolfini, whose portrayal of a brutal, emotionally ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215319215/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:48:21 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215319215/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press - FILE - in this file photo taken on Jan. 16, 2012 Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack outside the northern city of Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215319216/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:48:20 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215319216/scat/89d96798a39564bd BEIJING (AP) -- Astronauts struck floating martial arts poses, twirled gyroscopes and manipulated wobbling globes of water during a lecture Thursday from China's orbiting space station that's part of efforts to popularize the space program among young ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215319353/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:43:08 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215319353/scat/89d96798a39564bd BOSTON (AP) -- New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez had a connection to a homicide victim found in an industrial park near the athlete's home, but family and officials were mum on the nature of their relationship, two days after police first visited the upscale ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215318351/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:42:57 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215318351/scat/89d96798a39564bd BEIJING, China - China has held its first classroom lecture from its orbiting space station as part of efforts to popularize the successful manned space flight program among young people. Female astronaut Wang Yaping took questions live from among 330 elementary and middle school students at a Beijing high school during the 51-minute class from aboard the Tiangong 1 prototype space station on ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215319408/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:35:22 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215319408/scat/89d96798a39564bd Crew members of Shenzhou-10 (back L-R) Wang Yaping, Nie Haisheng and Zhang Xiaoguang attend a press conference in Jiuquan, northwest China’s Gansu province on June 10, 2013. China is to send its second woman astronaut into orbit on its longest mission yet, space officials said on June 10, as the country works towards building a space station. AFP PHOTO BEIJING – A Chinese astronaut ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215317603/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:46:46 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215317603/scat/89d96798a39564bd In China's first "space class", the country's second female astronaut in space Thursday says she and her crewmates haven't seen any UFOs during the space trip.Female astronaut Wang Yaping, one of the three crew members of Shenzhou-10 spacecraft, greeted about 330 primary and middle school students at a Beijing high school, through a live video feed system, about 340 km ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215318201/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:45:18 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215318201/scat/89d96798a39564bd View full size image A glance at the night sky above Earth shows that some stars are much brighter than others. However, the brightness of a star depends on its composition and how far it is from the planet. Astronomers define star brightness in terms of apparent magnitude (how bright the star appears from Earth) and absolute magnitude (how bright the star appears at a standard distance of ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215314115/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:45:58 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215314115/scat/89d96798a39564bd In the interactive exchanges with students back on the Earth, Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong-1 orbiter also answered questions related to water use in spacecraft, space debris protection measures, ways to deal with gravity-free environment as well as space ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215313473/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:38:13 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215313473/scat/89d96798a39564bd China's three astronauts sent best regards to students back on the Earth at the end of the country's first "space class.""I wish all you students will study hard and gain knowledge and add luster to the Chinese dream," says Nie Haisheng."The outer space is deep and has numerous mysteries. The exploration is limitless and let us make joint efforts in this ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215313669/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:38:13 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215313669/scat/89d96798a39564bd By The Associated Press The death in Italy of James Gandolfini, who played Mafia boss Tony Soprano on the popular HBO show "The Sopranos," was part of an unusual convergence of mob-related ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215312976/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:28:17 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215312976/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Elise Amendola - Chicago Blackhawks left wing Brandon Saad, center, celebrates a goal by Blackhawks center Michal Handzus, right, in front of Boston Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara (33) ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215312469/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:25:00 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215312469/scat/89d96798a39564bd (18 mins ago) A special lecture began Thursday morning, given by a teacher aboard a space module about 340 km above her students on Earth, the first such attempt by Chinese. Female astronaut Wang Yaping, one of the three crew members of Shenzhou-10 spacecraft, greeted about 330 primary and middle school students at a Beijing high school, through a live video feed system, Xinhua news agency ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215313113/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:19:42 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215313113/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:54pm EDT (Adds actor's planned attendance at Sicily film festival, more reaction) By Piya Sinha-Roy and Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, June 19 (Reuters) - James Gandolfini, the burly actor best known for his Emmy-winning portrayal of a conflicted New Jersey mob boss in the groundbreaking cable TV series "The Sopranos," died on Wednesday vacationing in Italy. He was ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215312508/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:54:12 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215312508/scat/89d96798a39564bd State police returned to the home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on Wednesday, two days after a body was found about a mile ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215310591/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:18:30 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215310591/scat/89d96798a39564bd This is a cropped, reduced version of panorama from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity with 1.3 billion pixels in the full-resolution version. See full panorama below. It shows Curiosity at the ';Rocknest'; site where the rover scooped up samples of windblown dust and sand. Curiosity used three cameras to take the component images on several different days between Oct. 5 and Nov. 16, ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215311394/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:03:08 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215311394/scat/89d96798a39564bd NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured imagery of super-heated plasma and 3 prominences in a magnetic field dance with the Sun on June 16-17, ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215310446/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:23:18 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215310446/scat/89d96798a39564bd President Dilma Rousseff has tried to placate the largely middle-class crowds by supporting their right to protest, and the Sao Paulo municipal government has rescinded the 10-cent hike in bus and subway fares that sparked the demonstrations in the first place. But as the protests grow even bigger, with two major marches called for Thursday, the Brazilian government seems at a loss over how to ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215309480/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:07:53 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215309480/scat/89d96798a39564bd legal status to immigrants living in the United States unlawfully while the additional security was being put into place. No green cards -- signifying permanent residence status -- could be issued to them until the plan was fully implemented. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to disclose terms of a plan that was not yet finalized. If agreed to, the ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215308376/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:03:05 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215308376/scat/89d96798a39564bd Obama administration unveiled plans to blast astronauts to an asteroid. Specifically, the program would send a robot to capture a 25-foot asteroid and drag it near the moon, so future astronauts could visit it as early as ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215309235/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:52:17 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215309235/scat/89d96798a39564bd FBI Director Robert Mueller gestures at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing about the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 19, ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215308120/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:52:08 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215308120/scat/89d96798a39564bd At the end of June 2013, NASA will launch its latest sun observing satellite, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph. IRIS will observe the interface region of the sun, the lowest level of our star's ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215307950/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:13:02 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215307950/scat/89d96798a39564bd The robotic European cargo ship Albert Einstein was opened Tuesday morning (June 18) at the International Space Station, a day late because of concerns that mold may have grown inside the vehicle, NASA officials said. The ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215307949/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:13:02 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215307949/scat/89d96798a39564bd The European Space Agency's fourth and penultimate Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-4) was named for the theoretical physicist Albert Einstein. The cargo craft launched on June 5, ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215307951/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:13:00 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215307951/scat/89d96798a39564bd WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306854/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:12:50 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306854/scat/89d96798a39564bd A demonstrator holds up a Brazilian flag in front of a group of protestors gathered in the main plaza of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Some of the biggest demonstrations since the end of Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship have broke out across this continent-sized country, uniting multitudes frustrated by poor transportation, health services, education and security despite a heavy ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215307251/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:07:30 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215307251/scat/89d96798a39564bd House Republican leaders are shooting to get astronauts on the moon and Mars, but they're trying to nix the president's asteroid plans. In April, NASA announced that President Barack Obama's Fiscal Year 2014 budget request for NASA included funding to keep NASA on track to launch astronauts into space from U.S. soil by 2017. The budget also fully funds the building of a heavy-lift ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215307952/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:02:51 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215307952/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Carlos Osorio - Investigators stand at the scene in Oakland Township, Mich., Wednesday, June 19, 2013 where officials attempt to restore the field to its natural condition after the FBI ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306879/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:57:09 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306879/scat/89d96798a39564bd A draft NASA authorization bill floated by the House Science, Space and Technology Committee would eliminate funding for the Obama administration's proposed asteroid retrieval mission and cut overall agency spending by about $1 billion, lawmakers said ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215307953/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:44:39 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215307953/scat/89d96798a39564bd '); This is a reduced version of a mosaic from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity containing 1.3 billion pixels in the full-resolution version. It shows Curiosity at the "Rocknest" site, where the rover scooped up samples of windblown dust and sand, and was released on June 19, 2013. Viewers can explore this image with pan and zoom controls at ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306599/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:03:48 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306599/scat/89d96798a39564bd If NASA continues to be funded at its current levels, a manned mission to Mars could be permanently beyond reach, space industry experts say. When asked how soon astronauts could potentially set foot ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306600/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:03:47 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306600/scat/89d96798a39564bd Forests store large amounts of carbon in their trunks and leaves, and play a major role in global climate. The BIOMASS satellite will map this effect on a global ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306598/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:03:47 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306598/scat/89d96798a39564bd SAVANNAH, Ga. - Celebrity cook Paula Deen says she has used racial slurs in the past but insists she and her brother, who are accused of racial and sexual discrimination in a lawsuit by a former manager of their restaurant, don't tolerate hateful behavior.In a court deposition filed Monday in federal court, an attorney for former restaurant manager Lisa Jackson presses the 66-year-old Deen ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306396/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:58:54 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306396/scat/89d96798a39564bd President Barack Obama smiles during a dinner hosted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel (not pictured) at the Chralottenburg … President Barack Obama's job approval rating slipped slightly to 49 percent in June, not much changed despite controversies over National Security Agency surveillance and the IRS targeting of conservative groups, according to a new poll from the non-partisan ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215305499/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:47:31 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215305499/scat/89d96798a39564bd interest rates to the financial markets. If approved, it would prevent rates for new borrowing from doubling in coming days. Students from lower-income families, who pay substantially lower interest rates than those more affluent, would see interest rates rise slightly to 3.8 percent on ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215305500/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:47:30 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215305500/scat/89d96798a39564bd This space wallpaper is a scaled-down version of a full-circle view, which combined nearly 900 images taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. The view is centered toward the south. It shows Curiosity at the "Rocknest" site where the rover scooped up samples of windblown dust and sand. Curiosity used three cameras to take the component images on several different days between Oct. 5 ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306591/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:41:00 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306591/scat/89d96798a39564bd '); Made in Space's prototype 3D printer, which is bound for the International Space Station in 2014, has passed a series of microgravity flight tests, company officials say. Image released June 19, ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306590/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:40:59 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306590/scat/89d96798a39564bd It's a guided tour -- from about 150 million miles away. A stunning panoramic image from the Curiosity rover offers an incredibly detailed look at the dusty, lonely landscape of the red planet. And thanks to NASA's computer science geniuses, you can take a guided tour of the rocky landscape from your couch.  Here's how to get the most of it.  First click in the ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306602/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:37:27 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306602/scat/89d96798a39564bd It's a guided tour -- from about 150 million miles away. A stunning panoramic image from the Curiosity rover offers an incredibly detailed look at the dusty, lonely landscape of the red planet. And thanks to NASA's computer science geniuses, you can take a guided tour of the rocky landscape from your couch.  Here's how to get the most of it.  First click in the ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306603/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:37:26 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306603/scat/89d96798a39564bd KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban, sending American officials scrambling to preserve the possibility of dialogue with the ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215305787/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:21:21 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215305787/scat/89d96798a39564bd WATCH THE BLOOD PRESSURE: What say you need to constantly monitor someone's blood pressure? Perhaps a catheter is inserted into the artery or medical staff have to use a pump-up cuff around the arm every 15 minutes. It's tedious and time-consuming. A new device from Switzerland is worn on the wrist and continuously records blood pressure. Several sensors simultaneously measure the contact ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306601/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:15:00 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215306601/scat/89d96798a39564bd , but maybe you'll feel just as much a hero. The White House and NASA are seeking the public's help in hunting for asteroids that could someday smash into Earth. They're also looking for a perfect space ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215305224/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:51:49 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215305224/scat/89d96798a39564bd federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place. A combination of government austerity and the ballooning cost of battling the ruinous fires has taken a bite out of federal efforts to remove the dead trees and flammable underbrush that clog Western forests. The ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215304255/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:38:56 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215304255/scat/89d96798a39564bd WASHINGTON, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – A draft Republican-backed bill released Wednesday that would authorize NASA programs for the next two years backs a $500 million project to develop crew transportation systems to end US reliance on Russian rockets for getting astronauts into space even as it blocks a less costly project to capture, redirect and explore an asteroid. The draft NASA ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215304561/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:38:44 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215304561/scat/89d96798a39564bd PARIS - A startup Swiss spaceflight company is planning to upgrade its proposed private satellite launch system into a manned suborbital space shuttle for science missions, the company announced Monday (June 17). The ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215303986/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:47:41 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215303986/scat/89d96798a39564bd '); This simulated view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the expected positions of Saturn and Earth on July 19, 2013, around the time Cassini will take Earth's picture. Cassini will be about 898 million miles (1.44 billion kilometers) away from Earth at the time. That distance is nearly 10 times the distance from the sun to ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215303985/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:47:41 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215303985/scat/89d96798a39564bd – the second and final album he recorded with the jazzy hip-hop trio Digable Planets – he was pleasantly surprised. "I was flattered," says the MC, who used to go by Butterfly but is better known today as Palaceer Lazaro, the enigmatic leader of Seattle's Shabazz Palaces. "That album is like a time capsule – it's an artifact from an epoch of time, you ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215303979/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:46:42 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215303979/scat/89d96798a39564bd Nasa's Cassini spacecraft will take an image of Earth from 1.44bn kilometres away. From there, our planet will look like the expected images of alien earths around other ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215303980/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:39:58 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215303980/scat/89d96798a39564bd NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which is now flying near Saturn, is turning its cameras back toward Earth today so it can grab a photo of its home planet from hundreds of millions of miles away. Scientists expect Earth to appear as a small blue dot between the rings of Saturn in the image, NASA said. The photo is being taken as part of a series of images Cassini is shooting of the Saturn ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215303983/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:37:05 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215303983/scat/89d96798a39564bd 2013. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215302979/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:31:24 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215302979/scat/89d96798a39564bd HAVANA - A State Department official says the United States and Cuba have agreed to resume bilateral talks on migration issues next month, in the latest evidence of a thaw in chilly relations. The talks will be held in Washington on July 17. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publically. The two Cold War enemies just concluded discussions in ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215303453/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:27:30 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215303453/scat/89d96798a39564bd Federal Reserve says it will maintain the pace of its program to keep long-term interest rates at record lows, but offered a slightly more optimistic outlook for the U.S. economy and job market. The brighter outlook could be a hint that the Fed is moving closer to reducing its stimulus. But the statement gave no indication of when that might happen. In a statement after its meeting, the Fed says ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215302906/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:18:07 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215302906/scat/89d96798a39564bd Giblin and his student J. Tate Deskins have produced the most efficient preheating model yet by finding a way to couple the inflaton to the electromagnetic field. This dumps energy directly into ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215303984/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:12:45 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215303984/scat/89d96798a39564bd SAO PAULO (AP) -- Scattered street demonstrations popped up around Brazil Wednesday as protesters continued their collective cry against the low-quality public services they receive in exchange for high taxes and rising ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215303239/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:05:37 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215303239/scat/89d96798a39564bd Scientists are a step closer to reconciling a mystery on Mars, a cosmic oddity centered on Martian rocks and pieces of the Red Planet discovered on Earth. The composition of meteorites long suspected to come from Mars have confounded scientists for a long time. Planetary scientists know that rocks sampled from the Martian surface are high in nickel, yet the Martian meteorites (known as ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215302702/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:39:37 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215302702/scat/89d96798a39564bd This narrow-angle color image of the Earth s a part of the first ever "portrait" of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames for a mosaic of the solar system from a distance of more than 4 billion miles from Earth and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic. Image released Feb. 14, ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215302703/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:39:37 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215302703/scat/89d96798a39564bd PARIS - A Russian probe being designed to land on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, could launch toward the gas giant with a European spacecraft being developed to explore Jupiter's icy ocean-covered satellites, according to European space officials. The benefits of such a joint launch arrangement, including sharing reconnaissance and mapping from ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215302705/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:16:41 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215302705/scat/89d96798a39564bd Radar image of asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon taken on June 7, 2013, by the Arecibo Observatory. Several craters are visible on the asteroid, and the moon appears as a bright streak. Each pixel is 7.5 meters (25 feet). (Arecibo Observatory/NASA/Ellen ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215302706/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:03:42 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215302706/scat/89d96798a39564bd Steven Senne, File | AP Photo FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2012 file photo, New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez (81) holds his helmet as he steps onto the field before an NFL football game between the New England Patriots and the Houston Texans in Foxborough, Mass. State and local police spent hours at the home of Hernandez on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 as another group of officers searched an ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215299213/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:20:39 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215299213/scat/89d96798a39564bd FILE - In this Thursday, May 6, 1999 file photo, George Zimmer, second from left, gestures to Andy Dolich prior to a meeting, in Oakland, Calif. Men's Wearhouse Inc. says it has dismissed Zimmer, its founder and executive chairman. In a terse release issued Wednesday, June 19, 2013, the company didn't give a reason for the abrupt firing of Zimmer, who built Men's Wearhouse from one ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215300457/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:20:26 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215300457/scat/89d96798a39564bd The World Bank says it will increasingly view its efforts to help developing countries fight poverty through a "climate lens." In a report released Wednesday, the international lending institution warned that heat waves, rising seas, more severe storms and other impacts ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215301082/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:10:19 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215301082/scat/89d96798a39564bd The above video should satisfy your daily need for rocket foom. Morpheus — a NASA testbed for vertical landing systems — did two firing tests this week that produced a fair amount of the usual fire and smoke, as you can see ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215301096/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:59:01 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215301096/scat/89d96798a39564bd unusual story that made its rounds across the internet this past weekend caught our attention. What at first glance was a simple "Man finds space rock" story morphed into an extraordinary claim, which, in the words of the late great Carl Sagan, "demand extraordinary evidence." The find was made by Phil Green of Amesbury, Massachusetts. Mr. Green was searching the local ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215301097/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:59:01 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215301097/scat/89d96798a39564bd Russia will ask the United States to contribute more toward the costs of flying US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), a spokesman for the Russian space agency said Thursday.Roskomos spokesman Vyacheslav Davydenko told AFP that since the US space shuttles stopped supplying the jointly manned station in the wake of the February 2003 Columbia disaster Russia had been shouldering ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215299880/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:51:56 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215299880/scat/89d96798a39564bd NASA has modified the first huge external space shuttle tank, a fix meant to avoid repeating a 2003 tragedy that killed seven astronauts and has grounded the shuttles since, the agency said Tuesday.An inquiry board recommended the repair to prevent pieces of insulating foam breaking away from the skin of the tanks and striking the shuttle itself, which was the apparent cause of the February 1, ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215301098/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:51:55 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215301098/scat/89d96798a39564bd '); The Beijing Spectrometer Experiment (BESIII) found evidence of a new particle that may contain four quarks. The same particle was independently found at the Belle experiment in Japan, with both projects publishing their results June 17, ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215298704/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:16:03 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215298704/scat/89d96798a39564bd '); An artist's illustration of the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer spacecraft in the Jovian system. The mission will launch in 2022 and arrive at Jupiter in 2030 to study the planet and its largest ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215298705/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:16:03 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215298705/scat/89d96798a39564bd Somali men and a policeman carry a government soldier wounded during an attack on the U.N. compound in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Al-Qaida-linked militants detonated multiple bomb blasts and engaged in ongoing battles with security forces in an attempt to breach the main U.N. compound in Mogadishu, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215297829/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:15:52 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215297829/scat/89d96798a39564bd A banner supporting Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, is displayed at Central, Hong Kong's business district, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview, and called them transparent - even though they are ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215297773/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:15:52 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215297773/scat/89d96798a39564bd The Cassini space probe will be taking images of the Earth from Saturn in a month's time, as part of its mission to explore the ringed ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215298706/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:09:10 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215298706/scat/89d96798a39564bd shot and killed Ibragim Todashev in May, while agents were questioning him about his connection to alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the bureau pledged to investigate ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215297510/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:59:26 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215297510/scat/89d96798a39564bd The reconstruction of TWA Flight 800's fuselage (Daniel Brooks/Epix) The producers of an upcoming documentary on TWA Flight 800--which exploded and crashed into the waters off of Long Island on July 17, 1996, killing all 230 people on board--claim to have proof that an explosion outside the Paris-bound flight caused the crash. And six former investigators who took part in the ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215297509/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:59:25 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215297509/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Farah Abdi Warsameh - Somali government soldiers gather in front of the main U.N. compound, following an attack on it in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Al-Qaida-linked ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215297511/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:59:23 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215297511/scat/89d96798a39564bd In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, backdropped against a blanket of heavy cloud cover in December of 1988, the Russian-built FGB, also called Zarya, nears the Space Shuttle Endeavour and the U.S.-built Node 1, also called Unity (foreground). Inside Endeavour's cabin, the STS-88 crew readies the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) for Zarya capture as they await the carefully ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215298701/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:53:15 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215298701/scat/89d96798a39564bd This image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows a simulation of asteroid 2012 DA14 approaching from the south as it passes through the Earth-moon system in February 2013, with no chance of collision with Earth. (AP ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215298707/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:37:12 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215298707/scat/89d96798a39564bd NASA's Langley research center in Hampton, Virginia, established in 1917 by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA's predecessor), works to pioneer and refine safe air travel and aeronautics ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215297240/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:05:13 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215297240/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Nisar Ahmad - Afghan police carry an injured Taliban fighter, who was captured after an overnight clash with Afghan police in Jalalabad, in the eastern province of Nangrahar, east of ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215295740/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:48:53 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215295740/scat/89d96798a39564bd 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. "This is not a situation in which we are rifling through ordinary emails" of huge numbers of citizens in ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215294010/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:38:49 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215294010/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Rahmat Gul - Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks at a press conference during a ceremony at a military academy on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Afghan ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215294011/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:38:48 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215294011/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Farah Abdi Warsameh - Somali government soldiers gather in front of the main U.N. compound, following an attack on it in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Al-Qaida-linked ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215294012/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:38:45 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215294012/scat/89d96798a39564bd NASA called on backyard astronomers and other citizen-scientists on Tuesday to help track asteroids that could create havoc on Earth. The US space agency has already identified 95 percent of the potentially ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215294305/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:27:59 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215294305/scat/89d96798a39564bd NASA scientists have got the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL) announced on Wednesday.The images were captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraf, according to JPL in Pasadena, Los Angeles.On Dec. 5, 2010, Cassini first detected the storm that has been raging ever since. It appears approximately 35 ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215295322/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:15 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215295322/scat/89d96798a39564bd Using the deepest X-ray image ever taken, astronomers found the first direct evidence that massive black holes were common in the early universe, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said Wednesday in a statement.The discovery from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that very young black holes grew more aggressively than previously thought, in tandem with the ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215295323/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:11 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215295323/scat/89d96798a39564bd China had collected all the data needed to draw its first full map of the moon surface and was almost done with the mapping work, Sun Jiadong, the chief designer of the country's Chang'e -1 lunar probe has ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215294128/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:01 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215294128/scat/89d96798a39564bd '); This image shows a trio of galaxies often called the Draco group because they are located in the northern constellation of Draco. The galaxy on the left is NGC 5985, the center is the elliptical galaxy NGC 5982, and the bottom right is NGC 5981. Astrophotographer Terry Hancock and former NASA scientist Fred Hermann teamed up to take this photo. The image was released June 17, ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215293741/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:49:39 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215293741/scat/89d96798a39564bd '); China's next phase of its moon exploration program, the Chang'e-3 would soft land on the lunar surface and deploy instrument-laden ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215293740/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:49:38 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215293740/scat/89d96798a39564bd NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now exploring Saturn, will take a picture of Earth from a distance of hundreds of millions of miles on July 19. NASA is inviting the public to help acknowledge the historic interplanetary portrait as it is being taken. Earth will appear as a small, pale blue dot between the rings of Saturn in the image, which will be part of a mosaic, or multi-image portrait, of ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215293719/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:48:43 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215293719/scat/89d96798a39564bd science fiction series launches tonight (June 19) on Comedy Central, beginning the latest swan song for a show that's famous for coming back from the dead. "If it is the end, we feel good," series executive producer David X. Cohen said during a conference call with reporters earlier this month. "It will be our best 'last season ever' ever." ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215292376/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:43:19 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215292376/scat/89d96798a39564bd LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Video shows Justin Bieber running into a photographer with his white Ferrari in Hollywood, but police say there was no crime and the injuries aren't ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215290715/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:22:27 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215290715/scat/89d96798a39564bd By STEPHEN OHLEMACHERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts enacted this year, according to a GOP senator. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa says his office has learned that the IRS is executing an agreement with the ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215290346/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:21:46 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215290346/scat/89d96798a39564bd WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican lawmakers have a message for those who want the party to soften its emphasis on social conservatism in hopes of reaching a wider national audience: Not so fast. ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215289779/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:18:30 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215289779/scat/89d96798a39564bd The obscure oversight board that President Barack Obama wants to scrutinize the National Security Agency's secret surveillance system is little known for good reason. The U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has operated fitfully during its eight years of its low-profile existence, stymied by Congressional in-fighting and its work at times censored by government lawyers. The ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215289780/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:18:29 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215289780/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Ahmad Jamshid - Top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Joseph Dunford, talks to media representatives at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June, 18, 2013. Dunford ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215288835/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:13:29 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215288835/scat/89d96798a39564bd authorities she was held captive for more than a year by three people who forced her to do housework, raided her bank account and menaced her with snakes ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215288836/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:13:21 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215288836/scat/89d96798a39564bd 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 ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215288983/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:48:55 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215288983/scat/89d96798a39564bd The image was stark (AP) -- a silent, solitary figure standing in passive defiance to the Turkish prime minister's demand for protesters to clear Taksim Square in central ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215288984/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:48:52 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215288984/scat/89d96798a39564bd In this Wednesday, May 22, 2013 photo, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Federal Reserve ends a policy meeting Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Investors have been nervously speculating that the Fed will soon scale back its economic stimulus and send interest rates up and stock prices down. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215288029/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:29:48 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215288029/scat/89d96798a39564bd China's first teacher in space Wang Yaping is in orbit and due to deliver a lecture to students via a video feed on Thursday, China Central Television ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215288666/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:15:06 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215288666/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Lynne Sladky - San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker (9) and Miami Heat forward LeBron James (6) collide during the second half of Game 6 of their NBA Finals basketball series, Tuesday, ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215288055/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:10:09 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215288055/scat/89d96798a39564bd BERLIN - President Barack Obama will renew his call to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles during a speech in Berlin Wednesday. A senior administration official says Obama will propose cutting the U.S. and Russian stockpiles by up to one-third. That would bring the total number of warheads in each country to about 1,000. Obama is not expected to propose any timeline for achieving those ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215288240/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:58:36 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215288240/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Lynne Sladky - San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker (9) and Miami Heat forward LeBron James (6) collide during the second half of Game 6 of their NBA Finals basketball series, Tuesday, ... http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215287151/scat/89d96798a39564bd Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:06:22 -0400 http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/215287151/scat/89d96798a39564bd