Torpedo
The torpedo, named after an electric shock-giving fish, was originally applied to explosive charges moored at sea (now called mines). The same name was also applied to explosive charges attach...
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Senate Republicans torpedoed legislation Wednesday to force the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, bowing to President Bush's adamant refusal to consider any change in war strategy before ...
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A tie-up between Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki and
Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya against Defense Minister Yuriko
Koike was behind the government's recent appointment of Mo...
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Amman (dpa) - The failure of the United States and Iran to strike
a deal at this week's Sharm el-Sheikh conference on Iraq is set to
wipe out any hoped-for benefits from pro...
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The explosive-laden wreck of a World War II torpedo boat has risen from the Pacific Ocean off the Solomon Islands, pushed above the water by a powerful earthquake, an official said Friday.The boat ...
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Painter Odile Crick, whose most famous drawing was a graceful sketch of the double-helix structure of DNA, has died.Crick died July 5 at her home in La Jolla, said her stepson, Michael Crick. She w...
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The fate of a World War II submarine, which was torpedoed en
route to Japan and contains the bodies of 70 people, including two
Japanese men, hangs in the balance as officials debate what to ...
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More than 60 years after being torpedoed by the British navy, a Nazi submarine built to threaten allied ships continues to spread fear off the coast of Norway.The rusting wreckage of the U-864, sun...
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Berlin (dpa) - A group of former German refugees have sent back to
Poland a ship's bell with a tragic history, nine weeks after an
uproar among Poles about why the item was ...
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