About 300 American Marines landed in Norway for a deployment of six months, the first time after the Second World War, when the foreign troops are allowed to stand in this Scandinavian country, for the irritation of Russia, reports Reuters and the AFP. Arrived on the board of a rent Boeing 747, the Marines landed with guns and luggage on the airport in Vaernes in the vicinity … [Read more...]
John Glenn, the former astronaut and senator, dies at 95
The former American astronaut and senator John Glenn, the first American who made an orbital flight around the Earth, died on Thursday at the age of 95 years, announced the governor of Ohio, John Kasich, quoted by the international press agencies. Glenn was hospitalized, announced on Wednesday a spokesman for the Ohio State University, the institution which gave the astronaut's … [Read more...]