Nasa has managed to send an iconic image into space using lasers.
The US space agency beamed Leonardo Da Vinci’s iconic painting, the Mona Lisa from its Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) at the moon.
The image travelled 240,000 miles by piggybacking on laser pulses that are already fired at the spacecraft and are used...
Doctors are fighting to save the sight of the artistic director of Russia’s illustrious Bolshoi Ballet after an acid attack on a Moscow street.
Sergei Filin, a 42-year-old former Bolshoi star, said a man threw the acid into his face late on Thursday evening near the gate of his apartment building.
The attacker wore a hood and either a mask or a scarf, so only his...
The son of former Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi has appeared in court today charged with attempting to escape jail, harming state security and insulting the new regime’s flag.
Saif-al Islam, who had been considered the most natural successor to his father before the fall of his regime in 2011, appeared in court in the western town of Zintan where he is being held...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Friday that there would be no dismantlement of any Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank if he wins a general election next week.
Asked in an interview with the Maariv newspaper: “Can you promise that during the next four years, no settlement will be dismantled?” Netanyahu answered: “Yes.”
“The...
Jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko’s trial for tax evasion was adjourned again on Friday as her defense counsel warned that her declining health had slumped to a “critical” level.
The former prime minister, the main opponent of President Viktor Yanukovich, was sentenced to seven years in prison in October 2011 on abuse-of-office charges.
But...
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