Russia starts meteor clean-up

STORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: Divers find no trace of meteorite in a frozen lake near Chelyabinsk, state media reportNEW: Witness says flash shone "like 10 suns," felt shock wave pass through his bodyMore than 4,000 buildings, mostly apartment blocks, were damaged, reports sayThe meteor released a 500-kiloton blast, NASA officials sayChelyabinsk, Russia (CNN) -- A day after a spectacular meteor blast shook...

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Chicago calls for tougher gun laws, but has no room for more prisoners

(CBS News) CHICAGO - Last December, minutes after he allegedly shot at a neighbor, Julian Gayles was caught by Chicago police. Gayles, 22, already had a record of gun crimes and parole violations, but had spent little time behind bars. Since 2009, he has been sentenced to seven years in jail, but has served just two. WATCH: Obama mourns "a Newtown every four months," belowGayles was on parole when...

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Budget Cut Warnings Harsher Than Reality?

Get ready for two weeks of intensifying warnings about how crucial, popular government services are about to wither — including many threats that could eventually come true.President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans made no progress last week in heading off $85 billion in budget-wide cuts that automatically start taking effect March 1. Lacking a bipartisan deal to avoid...

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Brecht's Galileo is a play for our times

Tiffany O'Callaghan, Opinion editor Ian McDiarmid as Galileo (left) and James Tucker as the Bursar (Image: Ellie Kurtz)It has been more than 400 years since Galileo Galilei pointed his telescope toward the night sky and observed the movement of the moons around Jupiter, providing proof that all things do not revolve around the Earth - and drawing the ire of the Catholic church. And it has been nearly...

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TCM slowly gaining popularity in Middle East

EAST JERUSALEM: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is slowly gaining popularity in North Africa and the Middle East.But advocates still face an uphill task of convincing governments to accept it as an alternative form of medical treatment.Dr Adi Fromm's hospital ward is well known throughout Israel.Patients disheartened with Western painkillers come here looking for relief.An example is...

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iPhone security flaw found

By Doug Gross, CNNupdated 3:21 PM EST, Thu February 14, 2013 | Filed under: Mobile In a YouTube video, a user shows how a nearby phone can be used to bypass an iPhone password to access limited functions.STORY HIGHLIGHTSYouTube video appears to show a way to bypass an iPhone password lockThe hack lets someone access your phone, contacts list and listen to messagesNEW: Apple says it's aware...

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Passengers leave cruise ship telling tales of woe

Last Updated 7:36 a.m. ET MOBILE, Ala. The passengers of the Carnival cruise ship Triumph began the process of getting back to normal early Friday, checking into hotels for a shower, hot meal and good night's sleep or boarding buses bound for other cities after five numbing days at sea on a powerless ship disabled by an engine-room fire. The cruise ship carrying some 4,200 people finally docked...

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Falling Meteor Causes Blast, Injures Hundreds

A massive meteor shower slammed into Earth near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, located about 1,000 miles east of Moscow in the Ural Mountains.Dashboard cameras captured a blinding flash of light streaking across the sky. Moments later, the fragments smashed into the ground. The impact, and the sonic boom of the meteor entering the atmosphere, shattered windows around the city...

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Runaway stars to fill in the blanks in Milky Way map

GUIDES to the galaxy might call it Zona Galactica Incognita – the half of our home galaxy we know little about. Indeed, the Milky Way is one of the least charted spiral galaxies in the nearby universe. Now it seems that stars kicked out of their birth clusters can help fill in the void and create the first proper...

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Football: Barcelona's Villa taken back into hospital

MADRID: Barcelona striker David Villa has returned to hospital due to kidney stone pain just two days after being released for the same problem, the club confirmed on Thursday.Villa has been taken into Barcelona hospital on the advice of the club's medical services due to the "persistent pain caused by the nephritic colic he has suffered and to control his progression", said a statement...

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