Articles by Elisha Maldonado

When in outer space, the view of the heavens is certain to be brighter than that of those on the ground. And with a stunning snapshot of a Perseid meteor bursting into Earth's atmosphere, astronaut Ron Garan proved this to be true, capturing the image through a window of the International Space Station on Sunday.

The already quite fit Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, has been getting exercise tips from the most unlikely of sources: Her new grandfather-in-law, Prince Philip.

Newly announced GOP presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry, launched a pair of Web videos introducing him as a candidate.

U.S. officials suspect that Pakistan allowed the Chinese military to see secret new U.S. technology -- the U.S. helicopter that crashed in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden -- despite explicit requests from the CIA not to.

A 2,000-year-old body thought to be that of a victim of human sacrifice was found in an Irish Bog, experts said Friday.

Norwegian police Sunday took accused gunman Anders Behring Breivik back to the island of Utoya to reconstruct the killing of 69 people last month.

A 980-foot tunnel found by Mexican troops beneath the United States border is likely to have been used to smuggle drugs and people into the U.S., officials said Friday.

Surely wearing his boots emblazoned with the words "liberty" and "freedom," Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced he is making a run for the U.S. presidency in 2012. And if the recent polls prove to be a trend, he and his boots have already walked over many of his competitors.

The Republican presidential candidate beat her rivals to the punch Friday in praising the 11th Circuit Court ruling invalidating the Affordable Health Care Act's individual mandate.

It is usually said that all good things come in threes, except for when it comes to politicians and sex scandals in 2011.

Contradicting earlier official reports, the top American commander in Afghanistan told reporters that the 17 Navy SEALs killed alongside 13 other U.S. troops and eight Afghan commandos were not on a rescue mission, The Daily reported. Instead, their helicopter came under fire after they had been called in to chase fleeing Taliban fighters.

Thursday night's Republican debate featured sparring between Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty. It was a classic case of "anything you can do, I can do better," but, actually, it was more like "whatever your record is, mine is obviously better."

The eyes of Texas, at the very least, seem to be upon Rick Perry, despite no formal entrance to the 2012 presidential race. But at long last, the Texas governor has put voice to his desire to make a run for it.

The U.S. Department of Defense has officially identified the 30 servicemen, 22 of them part of the Navy SEALs commando unit, Team Six, who died Saturday in Afghanistan when their CH-47 Chinook helicopter was shot down by the Taliban.

It was supposed to be the fastest plane ever built, the Falcon HTV-2, but instead it proved to be a fast failure.

Secret exploratory peace talks between the United States and the Taliban have reportedly crumbled after details of the negotiations were leaked.

Speedier, perhaps, than even Superman, the fastest plane ever built, the Falcon HTV-2, can get from London, England to Sydney, Australia in less than an hour, all the while withstanding temperatures of almost 2,000 degrees C, hotter than the melting point of steel.

In the Wisconsin recall elections, quite possibly the most contentious in state history, Republicans managed to fend off the Democrats and barely hold onto their state Senate majority.

Barely hours after the Facebook Messenger app launched, hackers managed to find traces of a video chat feature that appears to be under construction.

An American airstrike has killed the Taliban fighters believed responsible for shooting down a Chinook helicopter that killed 38 people, 22 of whom were members of the Navy SEALs Team 6, the senior commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday.

While snakes on a plane might be scary onscreen, a bat loose on an Atlanta-bound flight proved to be horrifying, causing passengers to duck for cover.

Insisting that tweets must "continue to flow," Twitter refuses to close down the accounts of London rioters who have used the service to spread unrest, saying "freedom of expression" is essential to keeping information moving.

The rioting and looting taking over England has turned deadly as it enters a fifth day with three men killed by a hit-and-run driver in Birmingham.

The shooting down of a U.S. helicopter, which led to the deaths of 30 American troops, 22 of which were party of the Navy SEALs commando unit, Team 6, stemmed from an elaborate trap by the Taliban, an Afghan official said Monday.

Sales for baseball bats on Amazon UK have risen by more than 6,000 percent over the past 24 hours, as the London riots stretch into their third day and spread to other cities.

As the chaos in Britain goes into its third day, Internet rumors have claimed that in addition to the widespread destruction, people were having their clothes stripped by looters as police attempted to contain the violence.

The Senate Banking Committee has begun looking into last week's decision by Standard & Poor's to downgrade the U.S. credit rating, a committee aide has confirmed.

A 26-year-old man who was shot in a car in Croydon, south of London, during disturbances this week has died, becoming the first fatality of riots sweeping Britain, the BBC reported on Tuesday.

Officials at Dover Air Force Base are preparing to accept the remains of 30 American troops, including 22 Navy SEALs, who were killed Saturday when their helicopter was shot down by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan.

A woman jumps for her life from a burning building on the third night of violence in London.