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(Eagle News) — A suspect in the 2015 kidnapping of three foreigners and a Filipina–two of whom were subsequently beheaded— has been arrested, the Philippine National Police said. Citing reports from National Capital Region Police Chief, Police Major General Vicente Danao Jr., the PNP said Ehan Aklul alias Khalid Akhalul and Abu Khalid was nabbed from a rented unit on the fifth floor of a building on Carlos Palanca St., Brgy. 648, San Miguel, Manila […]
by Kerry Sheridan Agence France Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) — NASA on Wednesday blasted off its newest planet-hunting spacecraft, TESS, a $337 million satellite that aims to scan 85 percent of the skies for cosmic bodies where life may exist. “Three, two, one and liftoff!” said NASA commentator Mike Curie as the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) soared into the cloudless, blue sky atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida […]
by Kerry Sheridan © Agence France-Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) — NASA is poised to launch a $337 million washing machine-sized spacecraft that aims to vastly expand mankind’s search for planets beyond our solar system, particularly closer, Earth-sized ones that might harbor life. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is scheduled to launch Monday at 6:32 pm (2232 GMT) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Its main goal over the […]
