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China rises: US warns Beijing is rapidly expanding its military power PDF Print E-mail

China is pouring money into aircraft carriers, missiles, cyber warfare
and "space dominance", a US Pentagon report has claimed.

The report estimated that China spent US$$60billion (�98billion) on its
armed forces and other military-related projects in 2010 Photo: REUTERS

By Peter Foster, Beijing

12:59PM BST 25 Aug 2011
The Telegraph UK

China will have a modern military capable of force-projection and
sustained high-intensity combat as early as the end of this decade, an
annual Pentagon report into the state of China's armed forces has claimed.



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Irene destroys 90% of homes on Bahamas island... now it's headed for US PDF Print E-mail

Officials in the US are scrambling to prepare for the storm as reports
begin drifting in of the damage done to a remote island in the Bahamas.
Hurricane Irene moves across the Caribbean

3:00PM BST 25 Aug 2011

Hurricane Irene has destroyed 90 per cent of the homes on one remote
Bahamas island - a brutal demonstration of the storm's power as it roars
towards America's densely populatd north-east coast.



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Nearby supernova blooms into view PDF Print E-mail

Aug 25, 2011 

By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY

An international team reports the closest exploding star seen in four
decades, offering insight how massive stars perish.



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Washington assesses damage from rare east coast earthquake PDF Print E-mail

by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) Aug 24, 2011

Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2011 - Although the 5.8 earthquake Tuesday on
the U.S. East Coast got all the attention, it wasn't the only quake in
the country that day, seismologists said.



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One of the largest earthquakes to strike the US East Coast PDF Print E-mail

One of the largest earthquakes to strike the US East Coast in decades has rattled offices in downtown Washington and caused panicked evacuations from skyscrapers as far away as New York.


 * From correspondents in Washington
    * From: AFP
    * August 24, 2011 5:02AM

The Pentagon, the US Capitol and Union Station in the nation's capital were all evacuated overnight after the 5.9-magnitude quake, which was shallow with its epicentre only one kilometre underground.



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