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Vietnam provider drops foreign news TV channels

A Vietnamese satellite TV company stopped airing international channels including BBC and CNN on Thursday, citing a law that foreign governments have warned would result in international news and entertainment channels ending their broadcasts in a country increasingly cracking down on freedom of expression. Underlining the confusion that has reigned ...

China detains man over fake airline bomb threats

Police in southern China detained a man early Thursday who is suspected of calling in fake bomb threats that grounded five domestic flights the previous day. The man was detained at a rental home in the city of Dongguan, police in the southern hub of Shenzhen said in an online ...

This artist rendition provided by NASA shows the Kepler space telescope. The spacecraft lost the second of four wheels that control the telescope’s orientation in space, NASA said Wednesday, May 15, 2013. If engineers can’t find a fix, the failure means the telescope won’t be able to look for planets outside our solar system anymore. (AP Photo/NASA)

NASA craft's planet-hunting days may be numbered

NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope is broken, potentially jeopardizing the search for other worlds where life could exist outside our solar system. If engineers can't find a fix, the failure could mean an end to the $600 million mission's search, although the space agency wasn't ready to call it quits Wednesday. ...

Space not the final frontier for viewing movies

The crew of the International Space Station is boldly going where no one has gone before — to see the new "Star Trek" film. The three astronauts were offered a sneak peak of "Star Trek Into Darkness" days before it opens Thursday on Earth, seeing it not in 3-D, but ...

In this photo dated Tuesday, May 14, 2013, students prepare the balloon that will be used to conduct a test launch of a Coke-can sized satellite, at All Nations University in Koforidua, Ghana.  Ghanaian college students plan Wednesday to launch a model of a satellite the size of a Coke can 200 yards (meters) into the air. Organizers hope that it will be the start of this West African country's space program.(AP Photo/Christian Thompson)

Students in Ghana launch mini-satellite

Their project might not sound like much: The college students on Wednesday launched a tiny model of a satellite the size of a soda can on a big yellow balloon. It went aloft to a height of 165 meters (yards) and then came back down attached to a parachute. Yet ...

Space not the final frontier for viewing movies

The crew of the International Space Station is boldly going where no one has gone before — to see the new "Star Trek" film. The three astronauts were offered a sneak peak of "Star Trek Into Darkness" days before it opens Thursday on Earth, seeing it not in 3-D, but ...

FILE - In this April 29, 2013 file photo, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks during a joint news conference at the Pentagon. A soldier assigned to coordinate a sexual assault prevention program in Texas is under investigation for "abusive sexual contact" and other alleged misconduct and has been suspended from his duties, the Army announced Tuesday. Pentagon press secretary George Little said after Tuesday's announcement that Hagel is angry and disappointed at "these troubling allegations and the breakdown in discipline and standards they imply."  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Hagel informed Obama of latest sex abuse case

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel informed President Barack Obama of the latest sexual assault allegations against a soldier who was assigned to prevent such crimes — the second soldier involved in similar accusations — and the president made clear he wants that behavior stopped, officials said Wednesday. Hagel spokesman George Little ...

China investigating phoned threats to 5 flights

Chinese police are investigating telephone threats that led to the grounding of five flights around the country on Wednesday, though officials said no planes were in actual danger. The Civil Aviation Administration said in a news release that the threats constituted the crime of transmitting "false terroristic information" and suspects ...

Soldier in sexual assault office accused of abuse

A soldier assigned to coordinate a sexual assault prevention program in Texas is under investigation for "abusive sexual contact" and other alleged misconduct and has been suspended from his duties, the Army announced Tuesday. Just last week an Air Force officer who headed a sexual assault prevention office was himself ...

FILE - In this April 29, 2013 file photo, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks during a joint news conference at the Pentagon. A soldier assigned to coordinate a sexual assault prevention program in Texas is under investigation for "abusive sexual contact" and other alleged misconduct and has been suspended from his duties, the Army announced Tuesday. Pentagon press secretary George Little said after Tuesday's announcement that Hagel is angry and disappointed at "these troubling allegations and the breakdown in discipline and standards they imply."  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Soldier in sexual assault office accused of abuse

A soldier assigned to coordinate a sexual assault prevention program in Texas is under investigation for "abusive sexual contact" and other alleged misconduct and has been suspended from his duties, the Army announced Tuesday. Just last week an Air Force officer who headed a sexual assault prevention office was himself ...

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