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Nasa's Phoenix Mars lander touched down on the Red Planet early this morning, in a mission that may yield evidence of primitive life amid th

Devout Shiites cut their heads with blades during an Ashoura procession to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein in Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. Ashoura, the tenth day of the Islamic month of Muharram, is marked by Shiite believers as the day that Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad and one of their most revered saints, was killed in the Battle of Karbala in the year 680 A.D.

Smoke spews out of Mount Soputan volcano on the northern tip of Indonesia's Sulawesi island October 25, 2007. Mount Soputan has erupted thro

In this image from NASA television, space station crew member Clayton Anderson, left, and space shuttle Endeavour astronaut Rick Mastracchio work outside the space station with Earth in the background during a space walk Wednesday, Aug.