Mir space station Launched February 1986 The International Space Station The United States, Russia, Japan, Canada, and fourteen member countries of the European Space Agency (ESA) are hard at work on the International Space Station (ISS), an...

The word mir means "peace," but to millions of Russians it is associated with a symbol of national pride. The space station Mir claimed a number of distinctions that are unmatched, even in the early twenty-first century, by the spacecraft...

MIR can refer to: MIR (submersible) Soviet and Russian bathyscaphes Habib Bourguiba International Airport in Tunisia Mail-in rebate Medical Inspection Room, the place for sick parade in most British and Commonwealth militaries and many Non-governmental...

Thousands of angry villagers torched government vehicles in street battles that injured 30 police after army soldiers allegedly shot dead a schoolteacher in Indian Kashmir, officials and villagers said Saturday.Rawathpora village residents claimed that Indian soldiers detained teacher Abdul Rashid Mir, 26, outside a school...

Jamaican police should face legal action for declaring Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer's death a homicide, the team's World Cup spokesman said Friday, alleging the high-profile case unfairly cast suspicion on the country's players."The name of Pakistan has been maligned and the names of Pakistani...

Two Pakistani team members were being questioned Saturday by Jamaican police investigating the death of World Cup cricket coach Bob Woolmer but the men have not been detained, the team's spokesman said.Investigators were speaking with the team captain Inzamam-ul-Haq and assistant coach Mushtaq Ahmed in...

Jamaican police could face legal action for declaring Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer's death a homicide, the team's World Cup spokesman said Friday, claiming the high-profile case unfairly cast suspicion on the country's players."The name of Pakistan has been maligned and the names of Pakistani...