Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Volodymyr Zelensky starred in a satirical drama in which his character accidentally becomes president Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has won a run-off election to become the country's next president by a landslide, exit polls suggest.The polls give him more than 70% support. He dominated the first round of voting…
Four pairs of SuperDraco engines power the Crew Dragon spacecraft's escape system. SpaceX has been working on the SuperDraco thruster for the better part of a decade. Back in June 2012, Elon Musk tweeted this photo, saying, "Just fired our SuperDraco escape rocket engine at full thrust! Needed to carry astronauts on Dragon." SpaceX A…
LITTLETON, Colo. (Reuters) - A week-long series of events commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre culminated on Saturday with a remembrance ceremony celebrating the lives of the 13 victims slain in the rampage. On April 20, 1999, two Columbine students, just three weeks shy of graduation, stormed the suburban Denver school…
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Omar al-Bashir was deposed by the military after months of protests A large hoard of cash has been found at the home of Sudan's ousted president Omar al-Bashir and he is now being investigated for money laundering, prosecutors say.Security services found euros, dollars and Sudanese pounds totalling more than $130m…
Enlarge / Then-23-year-old security researcher Marcus Hutchins in his bedroom in Ilfracombe, UK, in July 2017, just weeks before his arrest on malware charges. Marcus Hutchins, the security researcher who helped neutralize the virulent WannaCry ransomware worm, has pleaded guilty to federal charges of creating and distributing malware used to break into online bank accounts.…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have arrested a former U.S. Marine who is a member of a group that allegedly raided the North Korean embassy in Madrid in February and stole electronics, two sources familiar with the arrest said on Friday. FILE PHOTO: A Spanish National Police car is seen outside the North Korea's embassy…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionTurpin child reads statement during sentencing A California couple's children have forgiven them for years of torture and starvation as the parents were sentenced to life in prison.David and Louise Turpin's children told a court they still love their mother and father despite all the abuse.The couple…
Facebook's privacy gaffes keep coming. On Wednesday, the social media company said it collected the stored email address lists of as many as 1.5 million users without permission. On Thursday, the company said the number of Instagram users affected by a previously reported password storage error was in the "millions," not the "tens of thousands"…
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea said on Thursday it no longer wanted to deal with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and that he should be replaced in talks by someone more mature, hours after it announced its first weapons test since nuclear talks broke down. North Korea’s state news agency said Kwon Jong Gun,…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionTrump on Mueller report: "This should never happen to another president again" US President Donald Trump tried to get the man appointed to investigate his links to Russia fired, a long-awaited report has revealed.Details are continuing to emerge from the 448-page redacted document, collated by Special Counsel…
