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Probe to 'look inside' asteroids By Paul Rincon BBC News Online science staff in Paris, France Studies of asteroids would aid Earth-protection strategies A new space mission concept unveiled at a Paris conference aims to look inside asteroids to reveal how they are made. Deep Interior would use radar to probe the origin and evolution of two near-Earth objects less than 1km across. The mission, which could launch some time later this decade, would also give clues to how the planets evolved. The perceived threat of asteroids colliding with our planet has renewed interest in space missions to understand these...

The lightning attack by 3 Commando Brigade of the Royal Marines came within an hour of a massive aerial bombardment which lit up the skies above northern Kuwait. The Royal Marines launched an aerial and amphibious assault on a vital beach at the head of the Persian Gulf where the strategically important Al Faw peninsula meets the Shatt-al-Arab waterway and Iranian border. Soon after the Commandos landed, a second wave of British forces was being carried to the beach on high-speed hovercrafts to advance on Basra. 40 and 42 Commandos, which include hundreds of Britain's elite marines, had taken the...

A Palestinian man from the West Bank city of Jenin was said to have been killed in the US missile strikes on Baghdad early Thursday morning. The family of Ahmed Raed Elbaz received a phone call from relatives in the Iraqi capital to say that Elbaz had been killed in the bombardment that targeted Iraqi leaders. The family set up a mourning tent and said that Elbaz was a bus driver in Baghdad. Both Iraq and the International Red Cross said that one civilian had been killed and 14 wounded in the air strikes.