NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, has urged the world to forget about returning to our nearest satellite and head to Mars instead, the Daily Mail reports.
“Why do we want to go to go back to the Moon?” he asked. “Some nations want to go for prestige to say they are ‘first’ in space exploration in the 21st century and they want NASA to compete with them. “But there’s …

Former US Defence Secretary, architect of the Vietnam War, Robert S. McNamara died on Monday at the age of 93.
McNamara was recruited to run the Pentagon by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 from the presidency of the Ford Motor Co. He stayed seven years, longer than anyone since the job’s creation in 1947, the AP says.
For all his healing efforts, McNamara was fundamentally associated with the Vietnam War, “McNamara’s war,” the country’s most disastrous …

It’s becoming a tradition that whenever we start a trip somewhere far, we start off early in the morning, about 6ish, to avoid the peak hour in London. It usually pays off – the city is, indeed, quite empty and time needed to get out is significantly shorter in early morning hours than any other time. So, we took off at about 6ish and destination was Cardiff.

Bridge from England to Wales (pictured) is quite expensive …

US President Barack Obama opened his first Moscow summit on Monday, a series of meetings sure to test his diplomatic skills like no other but already set to deliver some tangible progress on nuclear arsenal reductions and help for the fight in Afghanistan, the AP reports.
Obama will be laying a wreath at Russia’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and sitting down for hours of meetings with President Dmitry Medvedev. The full-scale, two-day U.S.-Russia summit is …

US Vice President Joe Biden said that Israel has a sovereign right to decide what is in its best interest in dealing with Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and that Israel should determine for themselves what to do, whether the United States agree or not, the Daily Mail reports.
“We cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do when they make a determination, if they make a determination, that they’re existentially threatened,” Biden said, …

At least 140 people have been killed in rioting in the capital of China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, in one of the worst case of ethnic unrest in years, the Telegraph reports.
Chinese government has blamed exiled Muslim separatists for the unrest .
Hundreds of rioters were arrested after rock-throwing Uighurs took to the streets of the regional capital on Sunday, some burning and smashing vehicles and confronting ranks of anti-riot police, according to the report.
The unrest …

It was indeed a shock yesterday to learn that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has announced her resignation. No reason for the resignation, 18 months before it’s due, was given, and the only thing former running mate of John McCain said was that she was free to pursue “a higher calling”.
Palin posted this message on her Facebook page, and her spokesman confirmed the message was authentic.
She also said that she was “now looking ahead and how …

Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) have finally equated stalinism and nazism, saying that the Soviet Union was as guilty of Second World War as nazi Germany, and that both stalinism and nazism brought about crimes against humanity and genocide.
The organisation based their conclusion on the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of 1939 which they said was the precursor to the conflagration, the Daily Mail reports. The pact, named after the Soviet and Nazi foreign ministers …

The infamous low cost airline Ryanair who are considering charging people for using the loo and thinking of having people carry their own luggage to the planes, are now gone absolutely and totally mad – they now plan to make some passengers stand during flights.
According to the Telegraph, the airline would charge passengers less on “bar stools” with seat belts around their waists.
Michael O’Leary, the chief executive, has already held talks with US plane manufacturer …