EGYPT: 'Five die in Christian-Muslim clashes, Apr 07, 2013

"CAIRO - Five Egyptians were killed and eight wounded during clashes between Christians and Muslims in a town near Cairo, security sources said on Saturday. Four Christians and one Muslim were killed when members of both communities started shooting at each other in Khusus outside the Egyptian capital, the sources said."
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EDMONTON SUN - High Fashion High Performance fashion show, Apr 07, 2013

 

 "The Viva dance group performed during the High Fashion High Performance event put on by Southgate Mall and held at South Pointe Lexus in Edmonton, Alta., on Friday April 5th, 2013. Chad Steeves/Edmonton Sun/QMI Agency "
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CHICAGO TRIBUNE - Afghan attacks kill U.S. diplomat, soldiers, others, Apr 07, 2013

"KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A car bomb blast killed five Americans, including three U.S. soldiers and a young diplomat, on Saturday, while an American civilian died in a separate attack in the east. The diplomat and other Americans were in a convoy of vehicles in Zabul province when the blast occurred, Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement. The soldiers and the diplomat died in the blast along with a civilian employee of the Defense Department and Afghan civilians, Kerry said. His statement gave no overall death toll. "
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CHANNEL NEWS ASIA - NASA wants to tow an asteroid to the moon: US senator, Apr 07, 2013

 " NASA wants to grab a small asteroid and tow it into orbit around the moon, as part of a long-range plan towards establishing permanent manned outposts in space, according to US senator Bill Nelson. To get the project off the ground, US President Barack Obama will propose around $100 million for the US space agency in his 2014 budget, which he submits to Congress on Wednesday, Senator Bill Nelson said in a statement. "This is part of what will be a much broader program," the Florida Democrat explained. "The plan combines the science of mining an asteroid, along with developing ways to deflect one, along with providing a place to develop ways we can go to Mars." The plan calls for a robotic-spacecraft to capture the asteroid and tow it back towards Earth, ultimately leaving it in a stable orbit around the moon, close enough that, within eight years, astronauts could head on over. A similar plan was initially proposed in 2012 by experts at the California Institute of Technology, and the group, along with other top researchers in the field, have since prepared a detailed study into the project's feasibility. "
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INDEPENDENT - Militants kill seven in Afghanistan, Apr 07, 2013

 "Militants have killed six Americans, including a young female diplomat, and an Afghan doctor in a pair of attacks in Afghanistan in the deadliest day for the US in the war in eight months. The violence - hours after the US military's top officer arrived for talks with Afghan and US-led coalition officials - shows the instability plaguing the nation as foreign forces work to pull nearly all their combat troops out of the country by the end of 2014. The attacks came just days after insurgents stormed a courthouse, killing more than 46 people in one of the most violent attacks of the war, now in its 12th year. info@als-alexander.org or interalex1@yahoo.com  

MY SINCHEW - Scientists use 3D printer to make tissue-like material, Apr 07, 2013

 

 "WASHINGTON-AFP) - British scientists have used a custom-made 3D printer to make living tissue-like material that could one day serve medical purposes, according to findings released Thursday. The material is made up of thousands of connected water droplets, encapsulated within lipid films, that can carry out some of the functions of human cells. These "droplet networks" could be the building blocks of a new technology used to pass on drugs and, down the road, could even replace damaged tissue, said a statement from Oxford University, where the scientists are based. Their findings were published in Friday's issue of the US journal Science. Since the so-called droplet networks are completely synthetic, don't have a genome and and don't replicate, they lack the problems linked with other methods of creating artificial tissues -- such as those using stem cells."

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