Saturday, 04 May 2013 12:30
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MOFFETT AIRFIELD, CALIFORNIA: The first-ever manned airplane that can fly by day or night on solar power alone landed in the dark at a major southwestern US airport, a live feed from the organizer's website showed early Saturday.Solar Impulse, piloted by Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, touched down at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport at 0730 GMT after departing from California some 18 hours earlier on the first leg of cross-country journey.Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2013 ...
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MOFFETT AIRFIELD, CALIFORNIA: The first-ever manned airplane that can fly by day or night on solar power alone landed in the dark at a major southwestern US airport, a live feed from the organizer's website showed early Saturday.Solar Impulse, piloted by Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, touched down at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport at 0730 GMT after departing from California some 18 hours earlier on the first leg of cross-country journey.Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2013 ...
WASHINGTON: The Boston marathon suspect killed while trying to flee police died of gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, US media said Friday.News reports quoted a death certificate issued for Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the alleged mastermind of the April 15 bombings that left three dead. It was the first official word of what caused his death.The death certificate was read out by a Boston-area funeral home director named Peter Stefan, CBS News ...
NEW YORK: Credit Suisse said it has appointed Michael Muntner and Charlie Newton as co-heads of its health care investment banking business in the Americas.Muntner and Newton will report to Tom Davidson and Stuart Smith, who are global co-heads of health care investment banking.Muntner will based in New York, while Newton will be based in San Francisco.Copyright Reuters, 2013 ...
MEXICO CITY: US President Barack Obama and his Mexican counterpart vowed Thursday to put trade back at the core of their relations and to work together in the drug war as Mexico rolls out a new security strategy.After almost seven years of bloodshed by drug gangs that has left 70,000 people dead, the two leaders sought to turn the spotlight back on their $500 billion economic bond as they met in Mexico City's historic National ...
LOS ANGELES: Former CIA director David Petraeus, who quit his position last year after revelations about an extra-marital affair, will teach at a California college this year, it was confirmed Thursday.Petraeus, who has already agreed a teaching job in New York later this year, will join the University of Southern California's faculty as a professor to teach classes and participate in seminars and panels, a USC statement said.The four-star general commanded coalition forces during the ...
WASHINGTON: Most Americans do not see the Boston Marathon bombing and its suspects as an immigration issue, according to a poll released on Wednesday that also found the US public still relatively inattentive to the debate on revising immigration laws.While discussion of the immigration bill is still in its early stages, the blasts last month have been mentioned by some Republicans as a reason to go slow on the legislation.US law enforcement officials have named ...
MEXICO CITY: Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Barack Obama want to put economic ties at the heart of talks here Thursday but Mexico's shifting drug war tactics loom large over the US leader's visit.Mexico is the first stop of a three-day trip that will also take Obama to Costa Rica for a summit with Central American leaders, with trade, US immigration reform and the battle against drug cartels high on the agenda.After seven years ...
