Panel Says Computer Error Felled Mars Orbiter An errant command placed in the wrong location of the Mars Global Surveyor’s computer memory implanted a fatal defect in the spacecraft.... Read Full Article British Doctor Killed In Australia Jet Ski Crash A British doctor on holiday in Australia was killed and his wife injured today when the jet ski they were riding ploughed into a moored pleasure boat off the coast of Queensland.... Read Full Article Music Review | Emerson String Quartet: Beethoven To Brahms To Ives: Tribute To A Tortured Legacy The Emerson String Quartet’s concert at Carnegie Hall on Thursday offered much food for thought.... Read Full Article Sunnis Agree To End Boycott, Rejoin Iraq Government Iraq’s largest Sunni bloc has agreed in principle to return to the cabinet after a nine-month boycott, several Sunni leaders said.... Read Full Article Port-Au-Prince Journal: For Haiti’s Jobless, No Cost To Play. But Losers Pay. The beauty of playing dominoes is that it does not require any money to compete, but there are many techniques Haitians use to punish the losers, some of them rather painful.... Read Full Article |
World Briefing | Europe: Georgia-Russia Tensions RiseTensions flared again between Russia and Georgia, its southern neighbor, after both sides accused each other of an improper military buildup related to a disputed border area. Georgia criticized Russia for sending extra peacekeeping troops to Abkhazia, the breakaway region of Georgia that is allied with Moscow. The Kremlin said in turn that it had evidence that Georgia was planning to attack Abkhazia, a charge denied by the Georgian government. Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationOpen Borders Extended Within European Union...China blacklists Lust, Caution star Tang Wei... Hamas wins its own six-day war... Peacekeepers hope to stop Olympics being branded the ‘genocide games’... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - World Briefing | Europe: Georgia-Russia Tensions Rise |
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