Новости за 13.07.2015

The people in the Mission Operations control center — "the MOC" — had been tracking NASA's New Horizons spacecraft for nine and a half years as it journeyed the breadth of the solar system. It was just 10 days away from the dwarf planet Pluto when, at 1:55 p.m. on July 4, it vanished.

“Elder Scrolls Online” is the most robust and dynamic MMO ever to appear on the Xbox or PlayStation. Admittedly, there hasn’t been much competition in the past, but it’s impressive that Bethesda Game Studios has been able to bring all of the familiar elements of computer MMOs to the console so smoothly.

Little Pluto is a little bigger than anyone imagined.

Failure to meet deadlines and pay contractors on time may have contributed to the deaths this past spring of three South Koreans working on the U.S. Army’s massive expansion of Camp Humphreys, according to local police.

The future of fresh produce for Pacific military bases hangs in the balance this month as Congress holds closed-door negotiations on the 2016 defense budget.

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert presented U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, whose 5th Fleet has been instrumental in the fight against the Islamic State, with one of the Navy’s top honors Monday.

Thousands of people have rallied in central Florida in support of flying the Confederate flag.

The Iraqi government began on Monday a long-awaited large-scale military operation to dislodge Islamic State militants from Iraq's western Anbar province, a military spokesman announced.

After months of acrimony, Greece clinched a preliminary bailout agreement with its European creditors on Monday that will, if implemented, secure the country's place in the euro and help it avoid financial collapse.

North Korea has officially confirmed the purging of its defense chief two months after Seoul's spy service said he had been executed for disloyalty to leader Kim Jong Un, a South Korean official said Monday.

The U.S. and South Korea have formed a joint task force to investigate how a live anthrax sample entered the country undetected this spring, and to determine what steps are needed to prevent a reoccurrence, according to South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

A series of bombings Sunday across the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killed at least 29 people and wounded 81, police officials said.

Prime Minister David Cameron wants Britain's military to invest more in drones and elite troops to help counter the threat from the Islamic State group.

On Tuesday, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will sweep past Pluto and present the previously unexplored world in all its icy glory.

A new report alleges American and Afghan military and political officials greatly overstated the number of functioning Afghan schools, despite knowing the data didn’t back their claims.

Mexico mounted an all-out manhunt Sunday for its most powerful drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who escaped from a maximum security prison through a 1.5-kilometer (1 mile) tunnel from a small opening in the shower area of his cell, according to the country's top security official.