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Russian craft blasts off for ISS
A Soyuz spacecraft lifted off from a launch site in Kazakhstan on Tuesday to ferry three new crew members to the International Space Station.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=pTc5KMhCtsQ:JmEQhbybge4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=pTc5KMhCtsQ:JmEQhbybge4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=pTc5KMhCtsQ:JmEQhbybge4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?i=pTc5KMhCtsQ:JmEQhbybge4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=pTc5KMhCtsQ:JmEQhbybge4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a&


10 Super Hi-Res Photos That Will Blow Your Mind
NASA's updated "Blue Marble" shot is a 121-megapixel single-shot taken from 22,369 miles away by Russian weather satellite Elektro-L No. 1.


Russian craft to carry new crew members to International Space Station
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8,000 contractors said eligible for U.S. cyber guard
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Up to 8,000 companies doing business with the Pentagon may be qualified to join a newly expanded U.S. effort to guard sensitive information on private networks, a senior Defense Department official said Monday. The Pentagon on Friday invited all of its eligible contractors to join the voluntary pact aimed at fighting what U.S. officials have described as growing cyber threats that allegedly originate, above all, in Russia and China. ...


You've Never Seen Earth Like This
This photo is highest resolution image of earth ever taken and it didn't come from NASA. The image was captured by Russian weather satellite, Electro-L, and unlike NASA's famous "blue marble" photo, it is a single shot, not a composite of different images. The 121 megapixel...


New crew ready to launch to the space station
Three astronauts are finally ready to blast off toward the International Space Station Monday night, after weeks of delay caused during testing of their Russian-built space capsule.


Microsoft-funded 'Pirate Pay' takes aim at P2P piracy
Russian startup Pirate Pay is taking aim at the growing popularity of illegal file-sharing as it looks to cooperate with music labels and movie studios to stem the distribution of copyrighted materials on the Internet. The company's technology launches attacks on "BitTorrent swarms," or groups of computers hosting pirated content, making it impossible for them to share copyrighted material, TorrentFreak reports. "After creating the prototype, we realized we could more generally prevent files from being downloaded, which meant that the program had great promise in combating the spread of pirated content," Pirate Pay CEO Andrei Klimenko said recently in an interview. Pirate Pay recently received a $100,000 investment from the Microsoft Seed fund, and it claims to have blocked nearly 45,000 attempts to download pirated copies


India Ink: In BRICS Nations, Journalists at Risk
In Brazil, Russia and India, killers of journalists go free.


Moscow Journal: Russian Writers Demonstrate the Might of a March
Without a permit, 12 prominent authors went on a “test stroll” between two Moscow parks, attracting thousands of supporters but no police interference.


Queen's cousin gifted cash from Russian oligarch
Prince Michael, Queen Elizabeth II's cousin, received hundreds of thousands of pounds (dollars) in financial assistance from the self-exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky over several years, their representatives disclosed Sunday.