La Nasa a annoncé le lancement d'une nouvelle mission visant à étudier le Soleil de plus près grâce à une sonde qui sera lancée d'ici à 2018.L'engin spatial de la taille d'une voiture, nommé "Solar Probe Plus", se dirigera vers l'atmosphère du Soleil, à environ 6,4 millions de kilomètres de la...

Im Norden Chinas werden Autofahrer derzeit auf eine harte Probe gestellt: In der Nähe von Peking stehen hunderte von Auto- und Lkw-Fahrern seit mittlerweile zehn Tagen im Stau - und ein Ende ist nicht abzusehen.

Filed under: Mel Gibson, Oksana Grigorieva, Celebrity Justice Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... the L.A. County District Attorney will treat the Mel Gibson domestic violence investigation and the Oksana Grigorieva extortion probe as a "package deal." Our sources say the D.A. will make filing decisions on both… Read more

The N.Y. state Democrats are filing a letter with the state Board of Elections, asking the agency to probe "troubling details" from a New

Stoobalou writes "A shareholding company launched a lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard's board of directors earlier this week, claiming they bungled their fiduciary duties over the departure of CEO Mark Hurd. 'The HP board put shareholders' finances at risk by not telling them about the sexual harassment inquiry, and then later rewarded Hurd with an estimated $40 million severance package, the sui...

Reuters - Investigators in the Mel Gibson domestic-violence probe want to question a celebrity publicist who briefly represented Oksana Grigorieva.

This isn't exactly a release date Mel Gibson is looking forward to. Los Angeles Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore tells E! News that detectives are two weeks away...

A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy has died after he was carried into a police station by his mum

CEO steps down after a sexual harassment probe involving Jodie Fisher, an actress who appeared on reality TV show "Age of Love".

The Financial Services Authority has launched a probe into sales of a bond fund by Coutts, Royal Bank of Scotland's private banking arm, which counts the Queen among its clients.

Wien (OTS) - - Kläger hat sich als Anlageberater selbst beraten und klagte wegen Fehlberatung - Gericht hält fest dass "sämtliche Angaben des Klägers höchst suspekt" seien - Meinl Bank Vorstand Peter Weinzierl: "Klares Signal gegen Aktienkauf auf Probe"

INTERNATIONAL NEWS:KARIM BENZEMA has been included in France coach Laurent Blanc’s squad for next Wednesday’s friendly against Norway even though the striker is under police investigation on suspicion of soliciting sex with an under-age prostitute.

Vor dem Salzburger Festspielhaus herzte Anna Netrebko nach einer Probe ihre Familie. Ihr Sohn Tiago wird im September zwei Jahre alt.Foto: BrauerPhotos (c)A.K.

Search warrant shows suspected fraud totalling over $390,000

Army contracting officials have produced a scathing report on Arlington National Cemetery that documents the "questionable or improper" spending of millions of taxpayer dollars, supposedly used to pay contractors and purchase supplies at Arlington. The Army probe found little proof of services rendered for some contracts and payments.

The United States Patent Office has issued a patent to Dr. Mark DeCoster, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Louisiana Tech University, for his invention of an "Electromagnetic Probe Device" - an innovative technology developed at Louisiana Tech's Institute for Micromanufacturing.

BP was plunged into fresh controversy as it emerged US regulators are investigating suspected insider dealing in its shares since the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

THE US is probing how Wall Street firms created securities and sold them to some investors, while advising others to bet against them.

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has strongly condemned the killing of MQM MPA, Raza Haider. He ordered the concerned authorities to hold an immediate enquiry into the incident so that the real perpetrators could be brought to justice. The Prime Minister conveyed his condolences and sympathies to the members of the bereaved family. He prayed to Almighty Allah to shower His ble...

President Zuma has put Willie Hofmeyr's corruption busters on the trail of officials and business owners who pocketed millions intended to help poor people feel the 2010 "gees".

Committee questions legitimacy of internal investigation into raid.

In the United States, Google Inc. is defending itself against lawsuits, a congressional probe and a 37-state investigation led by Connecticut Atty. Gen. Richard Blumenthal regarding personal information the Internet giant collected from unsecured wireless networks while assembling photos and data for its Street View mapping service.But Great Britain's data protection watchdog says that its revi...

(Washington, DC) - The Government of Panama should ensure that a thorough and impartial investigation is conducted into possible abuses during violent confrontations between police and strikers from July 8 to 11, 2010, in Bocas del Toro province, Human Rights Watch said today. At least two people died and hundreds were injured. read more

Japanese tanker explodes near OmanAn explosion in the Strait of Hormuz near Oman damaged a Japanese oil tanker. Japanese officials say the explosion may have been caused by an attack since "there is nothing that can explode in that part of the vessel," a spokesman said. The explosion caused only a minor injury to one crew member.Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tou...

The European Union has launched an antitrust investigation into whether IBM has abused its dominant position in the mainframe computer market.

French police questioned soccer internationals Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema on Tuesday as part of an investigation into an alleged under-age prostitution ring, a legal source said.

EMBATTLED US bank Goldman Sachs will pay a record $623 million in order to settle a US fraud probe.

Auf den Balearischen Inseln kommen Deutsche und Spanier zuverlässig zusammen. Beim Public Viewing des WM-Halbfinales wird die wechselseitige Sympathie auf eine harte Probe gestellt - aber nur für Deutsche. FAZ.NET - Homepage | Politik | Gesellschaft | Wirtschaft | Finanzmarkt | Sport | Feuilleton | Reise | Wissen | Auto | Computer

Kigali has summoned SA's ambassador to voice concern over the probe into the shooting last month in Johannesburg of a Rwandan general.

China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products, a national industry association, is assisting and organizing computer modem manufacturers in their defense against an ongoing European Union (EU) trade probe into the alleged dumping of their products.

Vorbereitungen zum möglicherweise grössten Börsengang

Verkehrsminister Peter Ramsauer ist ein treuer Verbündeter der Bahn. Doch nun flammt ein Streit um den Zugriff aufs Gleisnetz auf, der die Allianz auf die Probe stellt.

Griechenland wirbt mit allen Mitteln um Touristen: Falls Streiks oder Naturkatastrophen den Urlaub ungewollt verlängern, will die Regierung für Extrakosten aufkommen. Ein Ausstand der Fähren könnte das Versprechen auf eine erste Probe stellen.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into the security breach in AT&T Inc.'s website that exposed the email addresses of some iPad owners. "The FBI is aware of these possible computer intrusions and has opened an investigation," said Katherine Schweit, an FBI spokeswoman.

Remember Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh Killings Video? Remember how Wikileaks is a major security threat? Well, now, there's this: U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... Also check out the featured ScienceBlog of the week: The Pump Handle

Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned.

Die Liebe einer Frau wird auf die Probe gestellt, als die Dorfgemeinschaft ihren Mann des Mordes verdächtigt. Felix Hassenfratz hat diesen Vertrauensverfall inszeniert.

Federal officials arrest an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned.

The deepest hole humans have ever dug reaches 12 kilometers below the ground of Russia’s Kola Peninsula. Although we now have a spacecraft on its way to Pluto--about six billion kilometers away from the sun--we still cannot send a probe into the deep earth. For practical purposes, then, the center of the planet, which lies 6,380 kilometers below us, is farther away than the edge of our solar ...

A commonly used probe for positron emission tomography (PET) scanning and a new probe reveal different functions in diverse cells of the immune system, providing a noninvasive and much clearer picture of an immune response in action.

THE almost perfectly round sinkhole which swallowed an entire intersection is 20m across and 30m deep.

Canadian Solar (CSIQ) shares are down sharply in late trading after the company said it has received an SEC subpoena relating to certain 2009 sales transactions. The company said its audit committee as begun an internal investigation as well, and it postponed the release of Q1 results, which had been [...]

Oil company's future in doubt as attorney general opens probe into worst oil spill in American historyThe future of BP was in doubt tonight as the US government launched a criminal investigation into the Gulf of Mexico disaster and some commentators predicted the oil giant would face an operating ban in the country.The US attorney general, Eric Holder, opened a criminal and civil probe into the...

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UN human rights chief calls for investigation into crackdown on red shirt protests.

Despite recent changes to its personal privacy settings interface, Facebook is still under fire for past privacy-related mistakes. This time, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee is getting involved.In…

The ongoing tussle between the Cellular Operators and Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) over mobile tower sealing took a new twist with the Delhi High Court constituting a high-level panel on Monday to ascertain if such towers are a health hazard.

Another person has been taken into custody in Pakistan in connection with the failed bombing attempt in New York's Times Square, a senior intelligence official said Thursday.

The threat of escalation haunts the Korean peninsulaTHE really unpleasant thing about scrapping with blood relatives is that they know where your weak points are. That is especially true in the festering feud on the Korean peninsula. On May 24th South Korea’s president, Lee Myung-bak, issued a sterner-than-expected response to an international probe which found the North guilty of firing a fata...

The discipline authority in Shenmu county of Northwest China's Shaanxi province is investigating a judge who won a lawsuit enabling him to receive 11 million yuan ($1.6 million) from his investment in a coalmine. Wang Zhixiong, secretary of the Party disciplinary commission of Shenmu, said the county's Party committee held a meeting on Monday night and decided to send a seven-member investi...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, already on trial for corruption, was questioned by police on Tuesday on suspicion of accepting bribes in a Jerusalem luxury housing project, a police spokesman said.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- About 10 members of an Army unit based at Fort Lewis, Wash., are under investigation for as many as three civilian deaths in Afghanistan, along with other potential wrongdoing, a senior military official said Monday....

The mayor of Paris demanded an internal investigation to probe weaknesses in the city's security system that malfunctioned during a big art theft this week.

In what may amount to an election-year tit-for-tat, House Democratic leaders are privately weighing whether to seek an ethics investigation into how Republicans handled the sex scandal that ended Indiana Rep. Mark Souder's career. Indiana - Mark Souder - Republican - Politics - United States

Die Menopause hat Schauspielerin Katerina Jacon in ein Wechselbad der Gefühle gestürzt: Depressionen und manische Schübe haben ihre Beziehung auf eine harte Probe gestellt

Vancouver's Olympic organizing committee and the International Luge Federation appear to have reached a stalemate in determining where the responsibility lies for the construction of the track where a Georgian athlete died.

As the authorities are annoyed with the frequent delays in the streetlight installation project, the Public Works Department is set to approach Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) to inquire the three private companies responsible for the work.

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