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John Glenn made his historic space flight alone in 1962 but celebrated its 50th anniversary on Monday among hundreds of people within his orbit, from fellow headline-making astronauts and NASA's administrator to family, friends and students at Ohio

A Swedish man who spent two months snowed inside his car as temperatures outside dropped to -30C is "awake and able to communicate", according to the hospital treating him, where stunned doctors believe he was kept alive by the "igloo

The US and Russia may be working on Mars missions, but the galactic ambitions of the Swiss are far more modest: they want to tidy up the Earth's atmosphere. The clock-and-choc-making country today announced plans for a rubbish-grabbing space bot

Music industry leaders have paid tribute to singer, Whitney Houston, who died at the age of 48 on the eve of the annual Grammy awards. Grammys organizing chief, Neil Portnow says Houston was one of the world's greatest pop singers of

Grammy-winning pop legend and actress Whitney Houston was found dead Saturday in Beverly Hills, police said. She was 48. The shock news came as the music industry gathered in Los Angeles for the annual Grammy awards show on Sunday, and a few

An anti-homosexuality Bill, described by Barack Obama as "odious", has been resurrected by the Ugandan Parliament. But according to the politician who reintroduced the Bill, it no longer contains a provision for the death penalty and

Global warming is nothing but a ruse to create a massive global bureaucracy that will rule the world with impunity -- this was the surprising claim of mathematician and engineer Dr David Evans who delivered Monday's keynote address at the Mining

After a month and half of having no contact with her family, South African drug mule Nolubabalo Nobanda, who was arrested in Thailand after she was found to be smuggling cocaine in her dreadlocks, has written to her parents from prison in Bangkok

Google Street View is in the process of mapping their first wine farms. What makes this statment even better is that these wine farms are in South Africa. If you have not yet played around on Google Street View, do yourself a favour and check it