NASA’s planet-hunting telescope appears broken, future uncertain
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- NASA's Kepler spacecraft has lost two of its reaction wheels, and it appears likely that the telescope's planet-hunting days are over, the U.S. space agency confirmed on Wednesday, but data yet to be analyzed ensures [...]
Passenger plane crashes in northwest Nepal, injuring 9
JOMSOM, NEPAL (BNO NEWS) -- A small passenger plane crashed in a river in northwestern Nepal on early Thursday morning, but all twenty-one people on board miraculously survived the accident, officials said. Nine of the survivors were said to [...]
Suicide bomber kills 14, including 6 Americans, in Afghan capital
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (BNO NEWS) -- A suspected Hezb-i-Islami suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car Thursday next to a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital of Kabul, killing eight Afghan civilians and six Americans working for the multinational [...]
UN assembly condemns escalation of violence in Syria, calls for political transition
NEW YORK CITY (BNO NEWS) -- The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution which condemns the continuing escalation of violence in Syria and reiterated its call for rapid progress on a political transition, calling it [...]
Sun unleashes fourth solar flare, briefly causing radio blackout
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- The Sun unleashed a fourth significant solar flare Wednesday as it approaches the solar maximum during its activity cycle, briefly causing limited interruptions to high-frequency radio communications, the U.S. [...]
4th U.S. service member dies after Afghanistan attack
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (BNO NEWS) -- Another U.S. service member has died after being injured in a roadside bomb attack in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, raising the death toll from the bombing to four, the coalition said on Wednesday. It raises [...]
H1N1 swine flu virus discovered in marine mammals
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) -- Scientists at the University of California, Davis, detected the H1N1 swine flu virus in free-ranging northern elephant seals a year after the human pandemic began, according to a study published on Wednesday. [...]
IMF approves $1.3 billion loan for Cyrpus
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday approved a three-year $1.3 billion (1 billion euro) loan to Cyprus, part of a larger international bailout to help stabilize the island's economy and avoid it [...]
Belize gov’t calls for investigation into destruction of Mayan pyramid
BELMOPAN, BELIZE (BNO NEWS) -- The government of Belize has ordered a through investigation into the destruction on an ancient Mayan pyramid that was over 2,000 years old.
The Noh Mul pyramid, located in the San Jose/San Pablo Village in the [...]