WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama cruised past a fading Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Wisconsin primary and Hawaii caucuses Tuesday night, gaining the upper hand in a Democratic presidential race for the ages.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.ph...SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Scientists investigating the icy waters of Antarctica said Tuesday they have collected mysterious creatures including giant sea spiders and huge worms in the murky depths.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.ph...BAGHDAD - Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has threatened to lift by the end of the week a six-month cease-fire widely credited with helping reduce violence in Iraq, officials said Wednesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080220...PRISTINA (Reuters) - NATO troops and U.N. police secured Kosovo’s northern borders late on Tuesday, facing down a challenge by ethnic Serbs who ransacked the crossings in protest at Kosovo’s independence.
http://in.reuters.com/article/world...Fight club: Goaded into a frenzy by a mare who is ‘in season’ and chained nearby for up to six hours, stallions battle for ‘sport’ in the Philippines
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...WASHINGTON - A frog the size of a bowling ball, with heavy armor and teeth, lived among dinosaurs millions of years ago — intimidating enough that scientists who unearthed its fossils dubbed the beast Beelzebufo, or Devil Toad.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/2322593...KIGALI, RWANDA — Bob Geldof has parachuted into the White House travel pool here in Rwanda, and will join us on the flight from Air Force One to Ghana tonight.
http://video1.washingtontimes.com/f...WASHINGTON (CNN) — The U.S. Navy will likely attempt to shoot down a faulty spy satellite Thursday, the day after the space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to land, two officials told CNN Monday.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/...HAVANA (AP) - Ailing leader Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba’s president early Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying in a letter published in online official media that he would not accept a new term when the newly elected parliament meets on Sunday.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.ph...UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The woman who died after falling from the U.N.’s Secretariat Building was a 44-year-old employee of the World Health Organization’s International Computing Center, a U.N. spokeswoman said Monday.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.ph...“Every action in company ought to be done with some sign of respect to those that are present.”
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayo...Officials in Dallas, Texas, have unveiled the purported transcript of a conversation between US President John F Kennedy’s assassin and another man.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas...Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign intends to go after delegates whom Barack Obama has already won in the caucuses and primaries if she needs them to win the nomination.
http://www.politico.com/news/storie...(AP) U.S. train passengers will have to submit to random screening of carry-on bags this week in a new security push that includes officers with automatic weapons and bomb-sniffing dogs patrolling platforms and trains.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008...TOKYO - Toshiba may pull the plug on its high-definition DVD format. But the Japanese electronics maker says no decision has been made yet.
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The TOW anti-tank missile of Iran-Contra fame was introduced for service in the US Army in 1970. Current versions are capable of penetrating more than 30 inches of armor, or “any 1990s tank,” at a maximum range of more than 3,000 meters. It can be fired by infantrymen using a tripod, as well from vehicles and helicopters, and can launch 3 missiles in 90 seconds. It is primarily used in antitank warfare, and is a command to line of sight, wire-guided weapon. TOW is used to engage and destroy enemy armored vehicles, primarily tanks.
