Follow @dsfportree Voyager Mars spacecraft. Image: NASA. In 1960, the Pasadena, California-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a spaceflight engineering laboratory managed by California Institute of Technology on contract to NASA, commenced study of Voyager, a robotic spacecraft program for exploring Mars and Venus in the late 1960s and 1970s.

0 Members of the Syrian Free Army speaks to a person believed to be a member of the United Nations observers mission in Syria, near the bodies of whom anti-government protesters say were killed by government security forces, at Ali Bin al Hussein Mosque in Huola, near Homs May 26, 2012.

YEREVAN. - The 2011 Annual Human Rights Reports on Armenia issued by the State Department will be discussed during Hillary Clinton's visit, Richard Giragosian, director of Regional Studies Center, told Armenian News-NEWS.am. This year's report, just like others, mentions about weaknesses and problems with state of human rights in Armenia. "Armenia has already passed the test of elections.

Damascus, 27 May 2012 (MIA) - The United Nations led calls for urgent international action on Syria after reports of a horrific massacre by regime forces that left 92 people dead, more than a third of them children. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan jointly condemned the "appalling and brutal crime," which involved "indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force," and was "a flagrant

Mackenzie Carpenter/Post-Gazette U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Dan Rooney and his wife, Patricia, at the ambassador's residence, "Deerfield," in Phoenix Park, Dublin. Mackenzie Carpenter/Post-Gazette The U.S.

DAMASCUS, May 27 (Xinhua) - The head of UN observers mission in Syria Saturday condemned the "tragic and brutal" massacre in Syria that left more than 90 people dead, including 32 children, warning the prolonged violence could lead the country to a civil war. Top UN officials and some countries joined the chorus of condemnation amid mounting calls for a halt to all violence. RELENTLESS CRIME Maj.

AFP Damascus, May 27, 2012 The Syrian army kept up its bombardment of rebel strongholds on Sunday despite an international outcry over the killing of 92 people, a third of them children, in the shelling of a central town. Arab and Western governments expressed outrage at the "massacre" in the town of Houla on Friday and Saturday. But the rebel Free Syrian Army warned that unless the international community took concrete action it would no longer be bound by a UN-backed

Western nations demand answers on the massacre in the Syrian town of Houla, with the US calling for an end to what it called President Bashar al- Assad's "rule by murder". UN observers said they had confirmed the number of dead Jurgen Balzan UN chief Ban Ki-moon and UN-Arab League peace envoy Kofi Annan have condemned a massacre of more than 90 civilians in Syria as an "appalling and brutal" breach of international law.

CAIRO: Mohammed Mursi, the Muslim BrotherhoodБ─(tm)s presidential candidate, is surrounded by reporters yesterday. Б─" AP CAIRO: The apparent winners of the first round of Egypt's landmark presidential vote reached out to rival candidates yesterday ahead of a June run-off, as international monitors called the initial voting process "encouraging".

WASHINGTON, May 27 (KUNA) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has condemned the massacre in the Syrian village of Houla and affirmed that the US stands with the Syrian people. "The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms yesterday's massacre in the Syrian village of Houla.