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Washington: Pakistani military had harboured Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden with the knowledge of former president General Pervez Musharraf, former army chief General Ziauddin Butt has said.

It sounds like a plot right out of a TV movie: A woman paralyzed since the age of 13 miraculously regains feeling in her legs and is able to walk again after being injured in a traffic accident.

Three people were killed and 35 injured in a massive collision on a fog-covered highway in western Germany, police said.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday released the outlines of its long-awaited probe into whether hydraulic fracturing — the unconventional drilling technique that's led to a boom in domestic natural gas production — is contaminating drinking-water supplies. Read more: http://newsok.com/epa-to-probe-gas-drillings-toll-on-drinking-water/article/feed/313880#ixzz1cvPCtyfL

A law firm has demanded that Pennsylvania environmental regulators force a natural-gas driller to continue delivering replacement water to residents of a town whose drinking water wells were tainted with methane and possibly hazardous chemicals. Read more: http://newsok.com/lawyers-want-water-for-pa.-towns-tainted-wells/article/feed/314324#ixzz1cvPkmssr

SAN ANTONIO - There is speculation that fracking being done by the oil companies in the area could have contributed, if not caused, Thursday’s 4.8 magnitude earthquake that struck 76 miles south-southeast of San Antonio.

ETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot developed by Boston Dynamics for testing special clothing used by the US Army. PETMAN balances itself as it walks, squats and does simple calisthenics. PETMAN simulates human physiology by controlling temperature, humidity and sweating inside the clothing to provide realistic test conditions. PETMAN development is lead by Boston Dynamics, working in partnership with Measurement Technologies Northwest, Oak Ridge National Lab and MRIGlobal. The work is being done for the US Army PD-CCAT-TI. For more information about PETMAN visit us at www.BostonDynamics.com.

Astronomers report in the journal Nature that organic compounds of unexpected complexity exist throughout the Universe. The results suggest that complex organic compounds are not the sole domain of life but can be made naturally by stars.

As David Shukman enters the exclusion zone, he finds cattle that have starved to death Continue reading the main story Japan quake Nothing stirs in the empty heart of Tomioka, a community of 16,000 now reduced to the eerie status of a ghost town after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima.

These combination photos show the damage and recovery of places hit by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in Japan pics at linky

This video shows the ADAPTIV, an adaptive thermal signature management developed by BAE Systems in Sweden. The video shows clips form a recent test, demonstrating how the ‘invisibility cloak’ on the CV90 light tank turns the vehicle invisible, by blend into its surroundings. Other parts of the video show how the same system can be used to display different images, including text, disguise as smaller or different vehicles. The system will debut next week at the DSEi 2011 exhibition in London, UK”

HERZLIYA, Israel: Israel will develop and defend gas platforms recently discovered in its waters, Energy Minister Uzi Landau said on Sunday after Turkey vowed to boost naval patrols in the eastern Mediterranean in a deepening diplomatic feud.

Experiments for NASA space missions have shown that small amounts of edible meat can be created in a lab. But the technology that could grow chicken nuggets without the chicken, on a large scale, may not be just a science fiction fantasy. In a recent paper in the Tissue Engineering journal, a team of scientists has proposed two new techniques of tissue engineering that may one day lead to affordable production of in vitro - lab grown - meat for human consumption. It is the first peer-reviewed discussion of the prospects for industrial production of cultured meat.

A government official announced on Wednesday that so far 20,000 government employees have been transferred from Tehran to other cities.

What a preposterous world we live in, where developments in invisibility cloak tech are common enough to draw yawns. Fine, you unmovable automatons, how about a time cloak? Is that something you might be interested in? Researchers at Cornell have designed, built and demonstrated the first “cloak” that hides events in time. The process relies on similar methods of distorting electromagnetic fields as invisibility cloaks, but it exploits a time-space duality in electromagnetic theory: diffraction and dispersion of light in space are mathematically equivalent. Scientists have used this theory to create a “time-lens [that] can, for example, magnify or compress...

FORT BRAGG, N.C., July 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army is suspending use of a new square parachute after a soldier at Fort Bragg, N.C., died in a training jump. The T-11 parachutes, which have been phased in since 2009, had been considered safer than older models, but Staff Sgt. Jamal Clay of the 82nd Airborne Division fell to his death June 25 when his failed. Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/07/13/Army-stops-using-parachute-after-death/UPI-67651310591404/#ixzz1S26Bixcv

A series of mystifying flying objects were seen in London skies on Friday, June 24, bringing the same unanswered question to the fore - do UFOs really exist?

EW YORK, June 26 (Reuters) - The Obama administration is considering requiring all new cars and trucks sold in the United States to get an average of 56.2 miles per gallon by 2025, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards are to launch military exercises on Monday with the firing of different range ballistic missiles, the state news agency IRNA reported.

Supporters of Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr have offered to carry out suicide attacks against US troops in Iraq, his office said Saturday, as a year-end deadline for a US pullout looms.