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Theory of Relativity Evidence Found:In 1918, Albert Einstein proposed that large objects bend the space around themselves while turning on their axis. In 2004, NASA scientists confirmed that the Earth bends the time and space around it while turning on its axis, by measuring the orbits of satellites. Ericos Pavlis, the NASA official who led the experiments to confirm Einstein's theory, said: "If the Earth bends the time-space around itself, then the orbits of the neighboring satellites should be changed". Pavlis proved the deviation existed by measuring the paths of two satellites name LAGEOS with lasers. Read here for more

A suicide attack in the center of the Afghan capital of Kabul Saturday injured six people, including two international peacekeepers, police said.The attacker also died in the apparent grenade attack on the peacekeepers.Three blasts shook a shopping area in downtown Kabul, causing a number of casualties, according to an International Security Assistance Force official.Read here for more

North Korea threatened on Saturday to double the size of its nuclear deterrent and the United States rejected its conditions for a resumption of talks, leaving the two nations in a dangerous stalemate. Read here for more

Australian tennis star Lleyton Hewitt was devastated by his break-up with Belgian fiancee Kim Clijsters. Clijsters announced through her web-site Friday that she and Hewitt had broken off their relationship just four months from their marriage next February. Read here for more

Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip and Palestinian attacks on Israelis have cost more than 200 lives and created a sense of ``drift and foreboding'' in the Middle East, a senior U.N. official said Friday.Kieran Prendergast, undersecretary-general for political affairs, said ``even to speak in terms of a peace process seems to put one at a distance from the present reality'' in the region.Prendergast said that 206 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed in the month since his previous report to the Security Council. He said the latest deaths raised the toll since the start of the Palestinian uprising in September 2000 to 3,839 Palestinians and 979 Israelis.Read here for more

Jews Against Zionism: "We implore and beseech our Jewish brethren to realize that the Zionists are not the saviors of the Jewish People and guarantors of their safety, but rather the instigators and original cause of Jewish suffering in the Holy Land and worldwide. The idea that Zionism and the State of “Israel” is the protector of Jews is probably the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the Jewish People. Indeed, where else since 1945 have Jews been in such physical danger as in the Zionist state?!" Read here for more

Hamas vowed yesterday to hit back hard for Israel’s assassination of the “Father of the Qassam” rocket, a weapon symbolising Palestinian defiance of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his plan to quit Gaza. Israel killed Adnan Al Ghoul, number two in Hamas’ military wing, just days before the Israeli parliament was to hold a key vote on Sharon’s proposal to remove all 21 Jewish settlements in Gaza and four of the 120 in the West Bank. Read here for more

The US has warned that anti-government elements in Laos may be planning to bomb a key Asian regional meeting there next month. The US state department said the US embassy in Vientiane had information of possible attacks on the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) forum. Asean, which groups 10 Asian countries, is meeting in the Lao capital from 25 to 30 November. Read here for more

Only American Big Business Sees Iraq Campaign As A Success:President Bush and Vice-president Dick Cheney are correct when they say things are not all bad in Iraq. It just depends on your perspective. Although the military campaign is in chaos, the economic campaign is moving along quite nicely -- at least for big U.S. corporations and the Republican Party. Read here for more

Two young Iraqi girls have been killed when their car came under US fire near the rebel-held city of Fallujah, according to an Iraqi who helped rescue four people wounded in the incident. Villager Mahmoud Mohammed says the mother of the two girls and the driver of the car, who have both been wounded, had told him a US tank had fired at the vehicle in Naamiya, 10 km south-east of Fallujah. Two other children in the car have been hurt. Read here for more

Stories have swirled for days about 18 Army reservists who refused what some of them called a "suicide mission" to deliver fuel in a dangerous area near Baghdad on Oct. 13. Relatives say the troops called home with a harrowing tale of trucks that were ill-equipped to travel through an area riddled with insurgents. On Thursday, the Army announced that the company's commander had been relieved of duty, insisting that she "is not suspected of misconduct." Details remain murky, but two early conclusions seem obvious. Read here for more

Ted Rall:Here's a summary of why Bush and his gang of bloodthirsty corporate goons must go; voters may take them along to the polls to help them cast their ballots. Ten reasons:Read here for more

Four Italian teenagers have confessed to flooding one of Milan's best known schools, causing an estimated 500,000 euros ($630,900) in damage, because they did not want to sit a Greek exam. The three girls and one boy, aged between 16 and 17, delivered a letter to the school's headmaster on Thursday, explaining how last weekend they blocked drains in a bathroom before they turned on washbasin taps and left them running. Read here for more

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