Obama apologizes for infecting Guatemalans with sexual diseases

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday extended his apology for purposely infecting Guatemalans with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in a research study in the 1940s.

Obama says White House chief of staff quits

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) applauds outgoing White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (L), while Obama's new interim chief of staff Pete Rouse looks on, in the East Room of the White House in Washington D.C., capital of the United States, Oct. 1, 2010. (Xinhua/Zhang Jun)

Calm returns to Ecuador on Friday after police unrest

An Ecuadorian military soldier stands guard outside the Palacio de Carondelet in Quito, capital of Ecuador, Oct. 1, 2010. Order had apparently returned to Ecuador Friday morning after President Rafael Correa returned safely late Thursday to the presidential palace from a police hospital where he was stranded. Security forces on Thursday staged a protest in Quito against a law passed earlier by the National Assembly that cut benefits

Ecuador troops rescue president from rebel cops

Ecuadorean troops firing automatic weapons and concussion grenades rescued President Correa from a hospital where he was trapped most of the day by rebellious police.

Senate confirms Munter as next US Ambassador to Pakistan

The US Senate has confirmed the appointment of Cameron Munter as next US Ambassador to Pakistan.

First Earth-like Planet to Be Announced Next May 2011

If the current rate of progress in the field of hunting exoplanets is any indication, then the world will be presented the first Earth-like extrasolar planet by no later than May 2011, a new analysis shows

First Earth-like exoplanet to be discovered by May 2011 | The Cavalier Daily

Scientists have discovered 450 extrasolar planets to date and recently identified potentially 750 new ones. Samuel Arbesman, a computational biologist at Harvard Medical School, and Gregory Laughlin, astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have plotted data from previously discovered

Star clusters are destroying gigantic exoplanets with their fierce gravity

The logic is simple. Extrasolar planets orbit faraway stars. Star clusters are home to lots and lots of stars. So where better to look for new exoplanets? Unfortunately, astronomers think the extreme gravity of these clusters is ripping exoplanets apart.

How Excited Should We Be About the New “Goldilocks” Exoplanet? | 80beats | Discover Magazine

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a planet with about three times the Earth’s mass orbiting the nearby red dwarf star Gliese 581. That in itself is cool news; a planet like that is very hard to detect.But the amazing thing is that the planet’s distance from the star puts it in the Goldilocks Zone: the region where liquid water could exist on its surface!Gliese 581 is about 20 light years away, and astronomers think the planet in the habitable zone is one of at least six in that star system. The new exoplanet orbits much closer ...

REUTERS - Ireland faces horrendous bank bill, Sep 30, 2010

By Carmel Crimmins

DUBLIN | Thu Sep 30, 2010 5:35pm BST

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland disclosed a "horrendous" worst case price tag of over 50 billion euros (43 billion pounds) on Thursday for bailing out its distressed banks and said it would have to make more drastic budget savings.