New planet, the youngest ever found, is revealed by cosmic trick photography
US and Australian astronomers cancel out light from solar cloud to reveal new planet LkCa 15 b forming in swirl of stardust
Left, the shining dust and gas cloud around the star LkCa 15. Right, an expanded view of the central region, showing the forming planet and the position of the central star. Photograph: Kraus and Ireland
A University of Hawaii astronomer has captured the first direct image of a planet forming around a star. Dubbed LkCa 15 b, it is the youngest planet ever found.
The university's Institute for Astronomy said Adam Kraus used telescopes on Mauna Kea island to find the planet. He was working with Michael Ireland from Macquarie University and the Australian Astronomical Observatory.
The death row widows of Kabul
Afghan law makes no allowance for the abuse that drives wives to kill their husbands. Lianne Gutcher meets three women on hunger strike as they wait to die
Thursday, 20 October 2011
For years, Gul Guncha had put up with her violent and abusive husband. He raped his seven-year-old daughter, then married her off to an old man, who also raped her. He sold their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter for 200,000 afghanis (£2,600) and was attempting to find a buyer for their other baby girl. He started beating Gul Guncha and the children when she asked the community for help. But their help was no use – and, one day, she snapped. As he beat them yet again, she grabbed a metal pole used to extract hot bread
Greece in turmoil as citizens embark on 48-hour general strike
The Irish Times - Thursday, October 20, 2011
DAMIAN Mac CON ULADH in Athens
MUCH OF Greece ground to a standstill yesterday as hundreds of thousands of citizens poured out onto the streets of the capital and cities across the country for the first day of a 48-hour general strike in protest at a new wave of austerity measures.
Ministries were shut, classrooms empty and, for the third day running, boats remained docked on a day of protest that the General Confederation of Greek Labour described as one of the biggest to take place in the Greek capital since the restoration of democracy in 1974.
How the Arab Spring sprang Gilad Shalit
Stephen Pollard
October 20, 2011
Strip the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange back to its basics and it is very straightforward. Hamas has handed over an illegally held Israeli soldier in return for Israel freeing 1027 of the most violent terrorists on the planet.
On any objective criteria, that represents a triumph for Hamas. Even more so when you realise that these were exactly the terms Hamas demanded five years ago when Shalit was seized. Five years of captivity and yet Israel has gained no better a deal than if it had acceded at the outset.
Enter Libya and start the fight, Gaddafi tells recruits
RAMI AL-SHAHEIBI TRIPOLI, LIBYA - Oct 20 2011
Wednesday's comments by Mahmoud Jibril reflected fears that Gaddafi will be able to use friendly relations with neighbouring countries cultivated during his more than four decades in power to help him launch a bid to return to power.
"Reports have shown that 68 vehicles with at least eight fighters each crossed the Libyan borders to Mali and Gaddafi is hiding in the southern desert," Jibril told reporters.
He said Gaddafi had made a deal with the Hamada tribe, which roams the borders betw
"Reports have shown that 68 vehicles with at least eight fighters each crossed the Libyan borders to Mali and Gaddafi is hiding in the southern desert," Jibril told reporters.
He said Gaddafi had made a deal with the Hamada tribe, which roams the borders betw
In Egypt, corruption cases had an American root
By James V. Grimaldi and Robert O’Harrow Jr.
CAIRO — Beginning two decades ago, the United States government bankrolled an Egyptian think tank dedicated to economic reform. A different outcome is only now becoming visible in the fallout from Egypt’s Arab Spring.
Formed with a $10 million endowment from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies gathered captains of industry in a small circle — with the president’s son Gamal Mubarak at the center. Over time, members of the group would assume top roles in Egypt’s ruling party and government.
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