NASA ushered in the new year with a pair of probes circling the moon in preparation for the latest mission to determine what lies below the surface of Earth's closest neighbour.
President Obama takes flak over the war in Libya...as both Democratic and Republican members of Congress voice doubts about the military campaign. Haitians wait to hear who will be their next president: political veteran Mirlande Manigat, or singer and entertainer Michel Martelly.
And one of Hollywood's most glamorous stars is extinguished. We look back at the life and loves of Elizabeth Taylor.
A partial solar eclipse on Tuesday that began over the Middle East and extended across Europe was the first such event of 2011. Up to two-thirds of the sun was obscured by the moon in parts of Switzerland, where the eclipse was best viewed.
Skygazers across North America and Europe were treated to a celestial spectacle early Tuesday, when the moon shone in different hues of red in its first total eclipse on a mid-winter solstice in 372 years.
The Roma people are at the heart of a controversy here in France, with the government looking to expel 850 of them by the end of the month. Even the pope had a few French words to say about that.
The North American Space Agency (NASA) announced that it has discovered "a significant amount" of frozen water in one of the permanently shadowed craters of the moon.
The US space agency NASA has crashed a rocket into a crater on the south pole of the moon in the hope of detecting water. This is the first mission of the Constellation programme, which aims to take Americans back to the moon by 2020.
Molecules of water exist on the moon, according to reports based on the findings of the latest space missions. Data from India’s maiden moon mission found spectrographic evidence of water, which appears to concentrate closer to the poles.
As the world celebrates 40 years since mankind's first landing on the moon, Germany has announced it is planning to send an unmanned flight to the Earth's major satellite in the next decade.
