Video: NASA's Morpheus lander explodes on test flight

NASA says the Project Morpheus lander vehicle has "experienced a hardware component failure", and exploded during a test flight at Kennedy Space Center.

NASA's Project Morpheus lander was undergoing testing at Johnson Space Center in Houston for a year. It arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 27 to begin about three months of tests.

According to NASA, the "lander is moving one step closer to achieving autonomous flight and landing." .. read more and watch video 

Old dam fails in Karelia, Russia — 25,000 without power (video)

Heavy rains in the Russian Republic of Karelia have left 25,000 people without electricity and have affected transport links in the region. Some communities in the region have been flooded.

The torrential rains have resulted in the failure of a small-scale local hydroelectric station, which was also flooded. Constructed in 1953, the hydroelectric station remains inoperable... read more and watch video.

First moonwalker Neil Armstrong undergoes heart bypass surgery

Neil Armstrong, who turned 82 on Sunday, has undergone heart surgery to relieve four blocked coronary arteries. He is doing great, according to his wife.

Armstrong lives in the Cincinnati area and has just celebrated his 82nd birthday. 

 He visited the hospital on Monday for a stress test, and then had to go back on Tuesday, when surgeons bypassed the four blockages in his coronary arteries...  read more.

Sikh temple shooter died of self-inflicted wound

Wade Michael Page died of a self-inflicted wound to the head, after being shot by police, following the shooting massacre at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Preliminary police reports filed after the Sunday morning shooting at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, suggested that Page was killed by police officers in a standoff, after he had fired on congregants with a 9mm pistol, shortly before Sunday services, killing six people... read more and watch FBI press conference.

Video: Russian girl films herself 'skywalking' among rooftops

Not for the faint of heart, or those with a fear of heights, this brave girl filmed herself walking on a narrow concrete beam, high up among the rooftops of Moscow.

The original video of this young girl, walking on a narrow concrete beam high above the ground, has gone viral. Around 250,000 Internet users have watched her 'tight-rope' walk in the latest of the so-called 'skywalkers' video series from Russia... read more and watch video (if you dare!).

Andy Murray's Olympic gold and silver medals go to the dogs

British tennis player, Andy Murray was so proud of his Olympic gold and silver medals, he draped them around his dogs' necks, and snapped them for Twitter.

Andy Murray and his girlfriend have two much loved pets, Maggie May and Rusty.... read more.

Fire in Aurora apartment building kills 2, injures 15

A fire broke out in an apartment building, just one block from the apartment of James Holmes, accused in the shooting massacre at the Aurora movie theater.

Two people were killed and 15 others have been injured in a fire that broke out in an apartment building in Aurora, Colorado.

The apartment building is at 17th and Peoria, which is less than 100 yards from the apartment building where James Holmes lived, prior to his arrest last month in the movie theater shooting massacre... read more.

Iran government offices logging off the Internet

Iran is planning to move the country's key ministries away from the World Wide Web. Tehran states that the Internet is "untrustworthy" and the country is planning a domestic intranet.

This action will be the first phase in a planned Iranian project, which would effectively replace the Internet with a domestic intranet. The Iranian Minister of Communication and Technology, Reza Taqipour, announced earlier this year that the new system will be operational in around 18 months... read more.

At least 12 people killed in landslides in the Philippines

Torrential rains triggered a landslide in the Philippine capital of Manila on Tuesday, killing eight people. One report states 51 dead. Four were buried by a mudslide in Zamboanga del Sur.

A landslide hit a row of shanties in a road in Manila's suburban Quezon City, killing eight people.

Emergency crews are attempting to rescue and evacuate tens of thousands of residents in the area, some of whom are stranded on the roofs of their homes... read more.

Huge fire engulfs Chevron California oil refinery (video)

Chevron's Richmond, California oil refinery erupted in flames yesterday. The fire is now contained, but still burning this morning. No injuries have been reported.

According to media reports, the fire started in the oil refinery's No. 4 crude distillation unit at 6:15 pm local time on Monday (01:15 GMT Tuesday).

Towers of black smoke and huge flames were seen issuing from the fire, as fire fighters struggled to bring it under control... read more and watch video.