Boeing Corporation has started the second phase of tests of the prototype of HEL MD mobile laser gun. During the tests, specialists will shoot the 10-kW solid-state laser. The power of the laser can be increased. All tests of the HEL MD laser gun are to be finished within three years. Afterwards, the military will launch the experimental use of the laser gun, CNews reports. For the time being, the... 

Astronomers have identified a giant gas planet, located just under 5,000 light-years away, that its sky is illuminated by four different stars (suns). According to the report published in Astrophysical Journal, the planet named PH1, after the Planet Hunters site, is slightly larger than Neptune and about six times the size of Earth. Two US volunteers, Kian Jek of San Francisco and Robert Gagliano... 

A member of the Russian State Duma Yevgeny Fyodorov shared his vision of the current situation in the world with Pravda.Ru. He believes that the United States is preparing the grounds for starting World War III. Their plan is to combine all local conflicts together. The United States, when speaking about the fight against terrorism, in fact relies on extremism and terrorism. Currently, the world is... 

Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner has become the first human to break the sound barrier by a freefall jump from the edge of space. Baumgartner, 43, leaped off a capsule more than 39 kilometers above the earth with his speed reaching 834 miles (about 1,342 kilometers) per hour, or 1.24 times the speed of sound, on Sunday. He jumped from an altitude of 39,045 meters and landed in the New Mexico desert... 

Moscow plans to halt its participation in the Nunn-Lugar Program, in which the US funds Russia’s dismantling of its arsenal of nuclear weapons, a Russian media outlet reported. Russia no longer requires US aid and can continue with the program unassisted, Kommersant daily newspaper reported. In addition, Moscow explained the decision by the necessity to prevent secret data leak. The Nunn-Lugar Cooperative... 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks during a press conference in Caracas on October 9, 2012. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he will continue to support his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad and has blamed the United States for the 19-month unrest in the Arab country. Chavez made the remarks in the capital Caracas on Tuesday, two days after he won a fourth consecutive term in office, which... 

US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has confirmed that US troops have been dispatched to the Jordan-Syrian border to help bolster the former’s military capabilities in case violence escalates in the volatile region. “We have been working with Jordan for a period of time now…on a number of issues that have developed as a result of what’s happening in Syria,” Panetta said. He said chief... 

US firms should stay away from doing business with two Chinese telecom giants due to a national security threat they pose, states a draft congressional report. It recommends barring the companies from the US market, yet fails to detail evidence. The House Intelligence Committee in its report to be released Monday urges US regulators to ban all merges and acquisitions in US by Huawei Technologies Co... 

The US military and intelligence agencies are preparing to capture and kill militants involved in the attack on the US consulate in Libya, despite the Libyan government’s demand that no foreigners will fight on their country’s land. The top-secret Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) is currently gathering information on the attack that killed a US ambassador and three other Americans, planning... 

At least 25 nations, NATO and non-NATO nations are expected to hold massive war games in Persian Gulf, near Iran’s waters. Iran has also announced that it will hold it’s largest war game in history and that it’s prepared to fight off any aggressor. Some news outlets have even reported that the number of nations which will participate in this month’s war games in the Persian... 

It seems that Curiosity, a Martian rover, managed to find evidence that proves that there used to be a lot of water on the Red Planet. The discovery means that that there could be life on Mars as well. The images obtained with the help of telemetry show a river channel or streams among rocks. Researchers are studying the images, trying to determine the parameters of an ancient water reservoir. The... 

US military secretly sprayed radioactive particles in St. Louis, Texas A college professor from St. Louis, Missouri claims that allegedly harmless chemical sprays that doused the city in the 1950s and ‘60s as a Cold War-era protection measure was something much more sinister. Lisa Martino-Taylor, a sociologist at the St. Louis Community College in the Midwest, has been endlessly digging through publically... 

A new propaganda study promoting the population control agenda of the global Elite says that castration will assist men in living longer. Dr. Cheol-Koo Lee, member of the research group for the study and professor at the Korea University, explains that pre-pubescent castration prevents the biological shift from boy to man. Lee said: “The records said that eunuchs had some women-like appearances... 

Uruguayan Foreign Minister Luis Almagro Uruguayan Foreign Minister Luis Almagro has told leaders and diplomats gathered in New York for a UN session that the US trade embargo on Cuba violates international law. Almagro made the remarks on Saturday in an address during the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly. “Our country rejects any coercive unilateral or extra-territorial measure... 

The U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is pledging millions more dollars in American assistance to the Syrian rebels as the U.S. and its allies explore new ways to help those seeking to oust President Bashar Assad. Clinton announced Friday that the Obama administration would provide the political opposition with an additional $15 million on non-lethal aid as well as $30 million in humanitarian...