The Beagle has more than likely been lost.

American casualties after the end of the war with Iraq have reached 475.

Forty thousand people died in Iran because of earthquakes.

Recent terror warnings are undermining Bush’s claims that he is winning the war on terrorism. Al Qaeda’s own political aim has been proclaimed by Osama bin Laden: to expel American military forces, bases and business corporations from Arab or Islamic soil, along with “corrupt” Western cultural influences. Furthermore, to adapt a second of Clausewitz’s dicta about conventional war, terrorism is an act of violence intended to impose the terrorists’ political will on their enemy.

The question for us today is this: which side is at present imposing its will on the enemy – the US or Al Qaeda? Which side enjoys the initiative? Objective strategic analysis can return only one answer: it is Al Qaeda.

The first Boeing Delta 4-Heavy rocket was erected vertically at pad 37B on December 10, one day after rolling horizontally to the Cape Canaveral complex.

So, according to this story the Yanks are heading back to the moon as a dress rehearsal for a manned Mars mission. This one, and this one also. But then this article seems to oppose these stories.

The Chinese have announced they want to land on the moon by 2020.

Meanwhile, the ESAs Mars Express is only a few weeks out from Mars and has returned this nice postcard.