Police in Peru say they have airlifted the last of the travellers stuck near the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu after floods wiped out road and rail links. Almost 1,300 visitors were flown out by copters on Fri. , a local officer said to the Associated Press. A total of virtually four thousand visitors and [...]
Multimillionaire businessman Richard Branson on Monday revealed the winged rocket his company developed to give paying shoppers a quick taste of space. The three hundred folks who have given Branson’s Virgin Galactic $20,000 deposits toward the $200,000 space-ride tickets were invited see SpaceShipTwo in its Mojave, California, hangar. CNN received an early peek. The 1st [...]
An Italian jury has found American student Amanda Knox and her Italian partner Raffaele Sollecito guilty in the stabbing death of UK exchange student Meredith Kercher. Knox was sentenced to 26 years in jail and Sollecito was handed twenty-five years. Both were convicted on all charges except burglary and together must pay 5,000,000 EU Bucks [...]
