Showing posts with label world news. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Space shuttle Discovery's final voyage
The space shuttle Discovery took off on its final voyage, on a piggyback jet ride to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Virginia annex. The United States retired its space shuttles last year after finishing construction of the $100 billion International Space Station, a project of 15 countries, to begin work on a new generation of spaceships that can carry astronauts to destinations beyond the station's 240-mile-high (384-km-high) orbit. For its last ride, Discovery took off not from its seaside launch pad but atop a modified Boeing 747 carrier jet that taxied down the Kennedy Space Center's runway at dawn. The shuttle's tail was capped with an aerodynamically shaped cone and its windows were covered.
Doctors fight to save life of six-legged baby.
Pakistani doctors are battling the odds to save a newborn baby born with a rare genetic condition that has left him with six legs.Baby was one half of a conjoined twin who did not completely develop in the womb.Birth defects like the Mermaid syndrome, a deformity where the legs are fused together, Craniopagus, a phenomenon where twins are joined at the head, and Dicephalic parapagus, a condition of having two heads, occur rarely but prove challenging to the medical world.More images on these rare congenital disorders.
Possible human remains at Titanic site
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