ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — The U.S. space agency says a Soyuz capsule carrying astronauts from the United States and Russia has landed safely in northern Kazakhstan.
Agency spokesman Rob Navias said parachutes slowed the craft before it touched down at 5:24 p.m. local time (1124 GMT) Thursday in Kazakhstan's northern steppes.
A NASA webcast said winds blew the Russian capsule carrying NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and Russian Maxim Surayev onto its...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — The U.S. space agency says a Soyuz capsule carrying astronauts from the United States and Russia has landed safely in northern Kazakhstan.
Agency spokesman Rob Navias said parachutes slowed the craft before it touched down at 5:24 p.m. local time (1124 GMT) Thursday in Kazakhstan's northern steppes.
A NASA webcast said winds blew the Russian capsule carrying NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and Russian Maxim Surayev onto its...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish court has convicted three men of the theft of the notorious "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) sign from the Auschwitz memorial site last December.
The men were given prison sentences ranging from six months to two-and-a-half years.
The court in Krakow said Thursday that the men confessed to the theft, which meant the case did not have to go to trial.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish court has convicted three men of the theft of the notorious "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) sign from the Auschwitz memorial site last December.
The men were given prison sentences ranging from six months to two-and-a-half years.
The court in Krakow said Thursday that the men confessed to the theft, which meant the case did not have to go to trial.
MOSCOW (AP) — The United Nations chief has signed a cooperation agreement with a Russia-led security group of ex-Soviet nations that some see as a counterbalance to NATO.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has signed the document along with Nikolai Bordyuzha, the head of the Collective Treaty Organization. The Moscow-dominated alliance includes Russia and six other former Soviet republics.
Ban said Thursday that the U.N. should work closely with...
MOSCOW (AP) — The United Nations chief has signed a cooperation agreement with a Russia-led security group of ex-Soviet nations that some see as a counterbalance to NATO.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has signed the document along with Nikolai Bordyuzha, the head of the Collective Treaty Organization. The Moscow-dominated alliance includes Russia and six other former Soviet republics.
Ban said Thursday that the U.N. should work closely with...
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonian authorities say a Polish cargo plane has made an emergency landing on a frozen lake near the capital due to landing gear and engine problems.
Economy Ministry spokesman Kalev Vapper says one of the six crew members suffered minor injuries as the Antonov AN26 turboprop aircraft en route from Finland to Estonia landed on the ice of Lake Ulemiste.
Vapper says the plane was preparing to land Thursday at Tallinn's airport...
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonian authorities say a Polish cargo plane has made an emergency landing on a frozen lake near the capital due to landing gear and engine problems.
Economy Ministry spokesman Kalev Vapper says one of the six crew members suffered minor injuries as the Antonov AN26 turboprop aircraft en route from Finland to Estonia landed on the ice of Lake Ulemiste.
Vapper says the plane was preparing to land Thursday at Tallinn's airport...
JERUSALEM (AP) — A rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip killed a man inside Israel Thursday, Israeli medics said, in the first death from a rocket attack since Israel's Gaza offensive last year.
Magen David Adom, Israel's emergency service, said the man killed was about 30 years old and appeared to be a farm worker from Thailand employed in an agricultural community just north of Gaza.
Such rocket fire was once common but has...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli medics say a Palestinian rocket fired from Gaza has killed a man inside Israel.
Israel's emergency service says the man was about 30 years old and appears to be a farm worker from Thailand.
Such rocket attacks were once common but have become rare since Israel's military offensive in Gaza last year.
Thursday's attack came on the same day as a visit to Gaza by Europe's top diplomat, EU foreign policy chief...
