Amazing Storms

Rivers as seen from space

Stunning images from Mars

The Beauty of the Full Moon

Latest Earthquakes in the World - Past 7 days (9/5- 16/5/2012)

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This list contains all earthquakes with magnitude greater than 2.5 located by the USGS and contributing networks in the last week (168 hours). Magnitudes 4.5 and above are in bold font. Magnitudes 6 and above are in red. (Some early events may be obscured by later ones on the maps.)
The most recent earthquakes are at the top of the list. Times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Click on the word "map" to see a ten-degree tall map displaying the earthquake. Click on an event's "DATE" to get a detailed report.
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Update time = Wed May 16 22:03:47 UTC 2012

Welcome to Wikinews - Latest news 5/2012

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• Australian media focuses on Olympic prospects against US for women's basketball
• UN convoy targeted in Syrian province of Idlib
• Bush, aides convicted of Iraq war crimes in absentia by Malaysia
• Sydney's 'Angel of The Gap' dies after decades rescuing the suicidal
• Cyprus leader says no to second term
• Swedish man denies serial shootings
• Mexico authorities find over four dozen corpses
• News briefs: May 12, 2012
• Obama's new stance on same-sex marriage earns donations
• Nude unicyclist arrested near Houston, Texas
• Report blames New Zealand skydive plane crash that killed nine on overloading
• Prison inmate wins 41% against President Obama in West Virginia primary
• Russian passenger jet crashes on Indonesian demonstration flight
• No surprises for sport in 2012/2013 Australian federal budget
• Former Ukraine PM Yulia Tymoshenko to end hunger strike, daughter announces
• Rick Santorum endorses Mitt Romney for US president
• Mexico and world react to murdered journalists 
• Albert Pujols ends his worst homerun drought 
• Australian women win VISA Water Polo International

• Thai petrochemical accident kills twelve
• Gary Johnson wins 2012 Libertarian Party presidential nomination
• U.S. study says Type 2 diabetes in youth is hard to control
• News briefs: May 6, 2012
• I'll Have Another wins 2012 Kentucky Derby
• Wikinews Shorts: May 5, 2012
• On the campaign trail, April 2012
• Kony 2012 campaign faces ridicule, praise
• Obama responds to criticism over medical marijuana raids
• Poison control centers educate public on hand sanitizer consumption
• Hundreds feared dead after Indian ferry boat capsizes

Yahoo - Latest Science News Galleries 5/2012

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  Astronauts launch toward space station

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  Underwater volcanic eruptions

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Photos that have marked humanity

The finest gypsum cave in the world

Black and White, Night City Landscape

75 years from the destruction of the Hindenburg Zeppelin

Spectacular solar storms

 Sunspot AR 1476 compared to the size of Jupiter. Image released May 10, 2012.

 The upper left corner of this image of the sun shows the biggest and most complex sunspot visible on the sun as of May 9, 2012. It has produced 7 M-class flares so far, but has not produced any coronal mass ejections that could cause geomagneti

Spectacular solar eclipses

NASA's Mars rover 'Opportunity

 After spending nearly five months conducting experiments in one spot, the NASA Mars rover 'Opportunity' moved for the first time the week of May 7, rolling off the rock outcrop where it hunkered down for the Martian winter.
 IN SPACE - JANUARY 23: In this handout from the NOAA/National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Center, shows the coronal mass ejection (CME) erupting from the sun late January 23, 2012. The flare is reportedly the largest since 2005 and is expected to affect GPS systems and other communications when it reaches the Earth's magnetic field in the morning of January 24. (Photo by NOAA/National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Center via Getty Images)

 NASA handout image shows a self portrait from the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity covered in dust as the mission approached its fifth Martian winter, December 21 to 24, 2011. This is a mosaic of images taken by Opportunity's panoramic camera (Pancam) during the 2,111th to 2,814th Martian days, or sols. The downward-looking view omits the mast on which the camera is mounted. REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State

Astronauts launch toward space station

 Three astronauts blasted off toward the International Space Station late May 14, kicking off a two-day journey to the huge orbiting lab. NASA astronaut Joe Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrom.