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Partnering with Freelancer.com, NASA is calling for submissions from the public in a new design competition that aims to add a robotic arm to Astrobee, a “free-flying robot” that will patrol the International Space Station.

Over in Brisbane, ex-world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka blasted into the final, ending the surprise run of 20-year-old Samantha Crawford with a 6-0, 6-3 thumping. “I love it every time I come here”.

“For too long, government programs have entrapped individuals … into extended dependency”, the Republican governor said Tuesday in laying out his executive blueprint, which promises to be somewhat muted by election-year inertia. “He talked a little bit...

The Saudi Embassy in Tehran and its diplomatic mission in Mashhad were stormed on January 2 over Riyadh’s execution of the prominent Shi’ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr. “If Iran wants to play a positive role in the region then it must deal with its neighbors based on...

“Thousands gather for a candle light vigil on Place de la Republique in central Paris, hours after the attack by two gunmen on the ‘Charly Hebdo” headquarters in Paris, France, 07 January 2015.

Mr Van Beurden said: “Bold, strategic moves shape our industry”.

I think I’d probably crack a few jokes about what Trump means to the British people. Tory MP Victoria Atkins said Trump was “bonkers” and her constituents would brand him a “wazzock” (annoying person).

In one of the most dramatic finishes in National Football League play-off history, the Cardinals outlasted the Packers 26-20 to advance to the NFC Championship game.

His rivals, to varying degrees, are also promising to crack down and protect the borders – and say they’d vacate Obama’s orders if elected. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, like many in her party, proposes a more humane “pathway to citizenship”...

“We wouldn’t even be here if Martin Luther King never did what he did”, 11-year-old AJ Baxter said.

The fifth-seeded Sharapova won the 2008 Australian title and has lost three finals at Melbourne Park.

A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people yesterday in a rush-hour attack on a market on the outskirts of the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials said.

“After the incident on Tuesday … close to 500 artillery and tank shells were fired on Daesh positions in Syria and Iraq”, Davutoglu said, using an Arabic name for Islamic State.

While the nine men and one woman sailor were not physically mistreated during their captivity, the latest news from the defense official is the first indication that they were under some kind of direct mental duress from the Iranians.

The Cavaliers close out their longest trip of the season in a city where they haven’t won in almost 10 years when they visit the rolling Houston Rockets on Friday night.