[h=3]Headlines[/h]Cargo rocket lifts off
A commercial supply ship is on its way to the International Space Station.
The California-based SpaceX launched its unmanned Falcon rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Sunday night. Aboard the rocket was a Dragon capsule holding 1,000 pounds of cargo, including chocolate-vanilla swirl ice cream for the three station residents.
This is the first Dragon launch under a $1.6-billion contract between SpaceX and NASA. The contract calls for 12 resupply missions.
Dragon will reach the orbiting lab Wednesday. It will remain docked for nearly three weeks before returning to Earth with an even bigger load.
Shooting in N.J.
[h=3]Masked man enters car, then kills 2, wounds 3[/h]A masked man carrying a gun and a machete entered a parked car in Camden, N.J., late Saturday and opened fire on five young adults inside, killing the driver and a passenger and wounding the others. He pushed aside the driver's body and drove off with four of the victims inside, authorities said. A motive wasn't clear.
One passenger escaped and called 911. The gunman eventually stopped the car and fled. He remained at large Sunday.
Putin turns 60
[h=3]Russian president dismisses opposition in film[/h]Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a documentary aired on his 60th birthday Sunday that the current generation of opposition leaders needs to be cast aside, and he brushed aside concerns that the two-year jail sentence for punk bank Pussy Riot was too severe.
The leader exuded a typical lack of self-doubt in the documentary that aired Sunday, despite the unprecedented street protests that accompanied his re-election to the post of president earlier this year after four years as prime minister.
Three members of Pussy Riot were sentenced to prison in August for performing an anti-Putin punk prayer at Moscow's main cathedral, a verdict that drew global outrage and came to symbolize the Kremlin's crackdown on dissent. The band's case comes up for appeal this week.
[h=3]Quick hits[/h]Syrian bomb: A car bomb exploded Sunday near the police headquarters in central Damascus, killing at least one person and damaging nearby buildings, Syria's government-run news agency said.
Agent's killing: The head of the U.S. Border Patrol agents union said Sunday that the agent killed last week in a shooting in southern Arizona apparently opened fire on two fellow agents thinking they were armed smugglers and was killed when they returned fire.
Art damage: A vandal scrawled graffiti on a mural by modern American master Mark Rothko at the Tate Modern gallery in London on Sunday. The gallery said police were investigating.
Wife-carrying contest: A Finnish couple took first place in the North American Wife Carrying Championship on Saturday at Sunday River ski resort in Maine. Taisto Miettinen and Kristina Haapanen received Haapanen's weight in beer and five times her weight in cash: $530.
A commercial supply ship is on its way to the International Space Station.
The California-based SpaceX launched its unmanned Falcon rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Sunday night. Aboard the rocket was a Dragon capsule holding 1,000 pounds of cargo, including chocolate-vanilla swirl ice cream for the three station residents.
This is the first Dragon launch under a $1.6-billion contract between SpaceX and NASA. The contract calls for 12 resupply missions.
Dragon will reach the orbiting lab Wednesday. It will remain docked for nearly three weeks before returning to Earth with an even bigger load.
Shooting in N.J.
[h=3]Masked man enters car, then kills 2, wounds 3[/h]A masked man carrying a gun and a machete entered a parked car in Camden, N.J., late Saturday and opened fire on five young adults inside, killing the driver and a passenger and wounding the others. He pushed aside the driver's body and drove off with four of the victims inside, authorities said. A motive wasn't clear.
One passenger escaped and called 911. The gunman eventually stopped the car and fled. He remained at large Sunday.
Putin turns 60
[h=3]Russian president dismisses opposition in film[/h]Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a documentary aired on his 60th birthday Sunday that the current generation of opposition leaders needs to be cast aside, and he brushed aside concerns that the two-year jail sentence for punk bank Pussy Riot was too severe.
The leader exuded a typical lack of self-doubt in the documentary that aired Sunday, despite the unprecedented street protests that accompanied his re-election to the post of president earlier this year after four years as prime minister.
Three members of Pussy Riot were sentenced to prison in August for performing an anti-Putin punk prayer at Moscow's main cathedral, a verdict that drew global outrage and came to symbolize the Kremlin's crackdown on dissent. The band's case comes up for appeal this week.
[h=3]Quick hits[/h]Syrian bomb: A car bomb exploded Sunday near the police headquarters in central Damascus, killing at least one person and damaging nearby buildings, Syria's government-run news agency said.
Agent's killing: The head of the U.S. Border Patrol agents union said Sunday that the agent killed last week in a shooting in southern Arizona apparently opened fire on two fellow agents thinking they were armed smugglers and was killed when they returned fire.
Art damage: A vandal scrawled graffiti on a mural by modern American master Mark Rothko at the Tate Modern gallery in London on Sunday. The gallery said police were investigating.
Wife-carrying contest: A Finnish couple took first place in the North American Wife Carrying Championship on Saturday at Sunday River ski resort in Maine. Taisto Miettinen and Kristina Haapanen received Haapanen's weight in beer and five times her weight in cash: $530.