Today's World News
To Start off South Korea
South Korea fires warning shot after North Korean boat crosses border.
South Korea fired on a North Korean patrol boat Monday, just a day after the North drew international condemnation by testing another banned long-range missile.
"The South Korean military is on high alert, beefing up surveillance near the NLL and monitoring any abnormal activities by North Korean soldiers," the official told Yonhap. Source
Indian man could be first recorded human fatality due to a meteorite - Indian officials say bus driver was killed by a meteorite, pending confirmation.
Indian officials say a meteorite struck the campus of a private engineering college on Saturday, killing one person.
On Sunday, various Indian publications, including The Hindu, reported that the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa, issued a statement confirming the death: "A mishap occurred yesterday when a meteorite fell in the campus of a private engineering college in Vellore district's K Pantharappalli village." There have been no confirmed human deaths due to meteorite strikes, although there have been a number of interesting close calls, based upon a list kept by International Comet Quarterly. Source
Family claims US lesbian couple were jailed for 25 years in Kuwait ‘for being gay’.
Monique Coverson served in the US military for seven years, before moving to Kuwait along with her partner Larissa.
Jackson writes in the petition: "After active duty, Monique and her partner Larissa later returned to Kuwait to work as military contractors.
"After 8 months of uncharged incarceration, the one ounce of legal substance magically turned into one pound of marijuana, and on January 12, 2016, Monique and Larissa were sentenced to 20-25 years in prison. Source
After 100 years, scientists are finally closing in on Einstein’s ripples - Ars goes inside ground zero of the search for gravitational waves.
Middle of nowhere happens to be ground zero in the search for gravitational waves, which were first posited by Albert Einstein a century ago and may soon become one of the hottest fields in science.
Giaime, a California Institute of Technology physicist who manages the lab and also a professor at Louisiana State University, says the most common question he gets is, "Why should we look for gravitational waves?" The very objects that produce gravitational waves are the most energetic, wild, and interesting places in the Universe.
As far back as 1972, Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Rainer Weiss, whom Giaime would later study under, outlined how a LIGO-like search for gravitational waves might take place.
"Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves a century ago, but it is the dedication of hundreds of scientists and engineers and the foresight and resolution of NSF staff in the past four decades that made LIGO possible today," Marronetti told Ars. Source
Swaziland plans to relocate 18 elephants to American zoos - Swaziland is planning to transfer 18 wild elephants in a Boeing 747 plane to United States in order to relocate them to three American zoos. In exchange, the zoos will be contributing $450,000 to a wildlife conservation trust in Swaziland for rhinos. Source
There you have it our Top 5 News of the day.
Congratulations Denver Broncos for winning 2016 Superbowl.
That's all for today, Thank you.
To Start off South Korea
South Korea fires warning shot after North Korean boat crosses border.
South Korea fired on a North Korean patrol boat Monday, just a day after the North drew international condemnation by testing another banned long-range missile.
"The South Korean military is on high alert, beefing up surveillance near the NLL and monitoring any abnormal activities by North Korean soldiers," the official told Yonhap. Source
Indian man could be first recorded human fatality due to a meteorite - Indian officials say bus driver was killed by a meteorite, pending confirmation.
Indian officials say a meteorite struck the campus of a private engineering college on Saturday, killing one person.
On Sunday, various Indian publications, including The Hindu, reported that the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa, issued a statement confirming the death: "A mishap occurred yesterday when a meteorite fell in the campus of a private engineering college in Vellore district's K Pantharappalli village." There have been no confirmed human deaths due to meteorite strikes, although there have been a number of interesting close calls, based upon a list kept by International Comet Quarterly. Source
Family claims US lesbian couple were jailed for 25 years in Kuwait ‘for being gay’.
Monique Coverson served in the US military for seven years, before moving to Kuwait along with her partner Larissa.
Jackson writes in the petition: "After active duty, Monique and her partner Larissa later returned to Kuwait to work as military contractors.
"After 8 months of uncharged incarceration, the one ounce of legal substance magically turned into one pound of marijuana, and on January 12, 2016, Monique and Larissa were sentenced to 20-25 years in prison. Source
After 100 years, scientists are finally closing in on Einstein’s ripples - Ars goes inside ground zero of the search for gravitational waves.
Middle of nowhere happens to be ground zero in the search for gravitational waves, which were first posited by Albert Einstein a century ago and may soon become one of the hottest fields in science.
Giaime, a California Institute of Technology physicist who manages the lab and also a professor at Louisiana State University, says the most common question he gets is, "Why should we look for gravitational waves?" The very objects that produce gravitational waves are the most energetic, wild, and interesting places in the Universe.
As far back as 1972, Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Rainer Weiss, whom Giaime would later study under, outlined how a LIGO-like search for gravitational waves might take place.
"Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves a century ago, but it is the dedication of hundreds of scientists and engineers and the foresight and resolution of NSF staff in the past four decades that made LIGO possible today," Marronetti told Ars. Source
Swaziland plans to relocate 18 elephants to American zoos - Swaziland is planning to transfer 18 wild elephants in a Boeing 747 plane to United States in order to relocate them to three American zoos. In exchange, the zoos will be contributing $450,000 to a wildlife conservation trust in Swaziland for rhinos. Source
There you have it our Top 5 News of the day.
Congratulations Denver Broncos for winning 2016 Superbowl.
That's all for today, Thank you.
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