STOCKHOLM — A Swedish land owner won a legal battle Thursday to keep a 14-kilogram (31-pound) meteorite when an appeals court ruled that such rocks should be considered “immovable property” and part of the land where they are found. The property on which the meteorite landed contains iron and the meteorite is made of iron. … Read more
The connection between Snoopy and Omega is long established, and it’s likely this iteration of the wildly successful Swatch collaboration will be its most popular model, especially as it is a proper new iteration and not a version of the Moonshine Gold MoonSwatches. “There seems to be an increasingly sonorous groan echoing throughout the enthusiast … Read more
Chinese automakers are starting to equip electric cars with camera drones. For now, this drone integration is aimed at content creators who want to collect videos of themselves driving. These systems typically enable one-click filming of a moving vehicle, with the action viewable live on the car’s interior display as well as recorded for posterity. … Read more
SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China said on Saturday a small civilian vessel from the Philippines had “illegally placed itself on the beach” of an atoll in the South China Sea that both countries claim. The vessel, which landed on the Spratly Islands atoll on Friday, was there for supply purposes, the China Coast Guard posted on the … Read more
The Japanese robotic spacecraft that touched down on the moon’s surface on Friday did so despite an engine malfunction, but it still was able to land at its intended site, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced Thursday. While still intact, the spacecraft, which had no one on board, came to a rest on its … Read more
A man was found traveling on a Scandinavian Airlines flight to the US without a passport. The FBI charged Sergey Vladimirovich Ochigava with being a stowaway. Ochigava said he couldn’t remember how he boarded the flight without any valid documents. A man flew to the US without a passport or a ticket — and managed … Read more
Conch fritters and cracked conch are popular menu items in South Florida. But the queen conch served in the state is usually harvested in the Bahamas, and not caught here — or at least it shouldn’t be. Harvesting queen conch, which is a protected species in Florida and in consideration to be listed as “threatened” … Read more
A capsule holding precious bits of space rock fell from the sky at breakneck speed Sunday morning, completing the first U.S. mission to bring home a sample from an asteroid. The capsule’s recovery from a Utah desert concludes a seven-year, 4 billion-mile journey through space that may help scientists solve mysteries of the solar system … Read more
ABBA made a historic touchdown on September 17, 1979, after they performed their first-ever live performance on American soil – throughout the one worldwide tour they ever did. ABBA: The Tour had arrived in North America two days earlier, because the Scandinavian superstars began their itinerary with Canadian reveals in Edmonton and Vancouver. However after … Read more
Léon Gautier, the final surviving member of an elite French unit that joined U.S. and different Allied forces within the D-Day invasion to wrest Normandy from Nazi management, died July 3 at 100. The demise was introduced by Romain Bail, the mayor of Ouistreham, an English Channel coastal neighborhood the place Allies landed on June … Read more