Aviation officials investigate deadly Ohio jet crash

CLEVELAND, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Federal and local aviation experts in Ohio were investigating a business jet crash that killed as many as nine people, and were expected to provide an update later on Wednesday, fire officials said.

Officials from the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board as well as Akron police were at the site where the 10-passenger Hawker H25 business jet struck an apartment building on Tuesday while approaching the Akron Fulton airport.

Deep-sea anglerfish captured off Monterey

Scientists say their footage is believed to be the first of the rarely observed creature in its natural habitat; specimen was collected for study

Anglerfish uses luminescent tip at the end of its “fishing pole” to entice prey; video screen grab

Ban Air France from Nigeria Now! By Pius Adesanmi

Putain de merde! I exclaim in absolute contempt as I hand over my passport to the French police officer. That’s an unthinkable vulgarity! It is the father of vulgarities in French, guaranteed to catch the attention of the French policeman who now holds my passport, lost in a few seconds of confusion. His colleagues in the ongoing process of stripping Nigerians of their human dignity also stop sharply in their tracks, all eyes on me. I have them where I want them. I want all four French police officers to hear me use a vulgarity that no White French man or woman can get away with using in the presence of a French policeman in the best of circumstances, let alone an African with a black ass getting off the plane – and from Nigeria of all places!

Russian website streams thousands of private webcams

A new website based in Russia is streaming video live from thousands of private webcams around the world, including images of babies and hospital patients.

23 reasons Portland is still the world's best beer city

Scientists listen, wait for comet lander signals

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BERLIN — The head of the European comet mission says scientists were listening for signals from the Philae lander Saturday morning, but think it is unlikely they will establish any kind of communication soon.

Controllers at the European Space Agency on Friday ordered the lander to perform a maneuver intended to pull it out of a shadow on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko so that solar panels could recharge the depleted batteries.

© ESAFile/AP Photo The picture released by the European Space Agency ESA on Nov. 12, 2014 was taken by the ROLIS instrument on Rosetta's Philae lander during descent from a distance of approximately 3 km from the 4-kilometer-wide (2.5-mile-wide)…

"We don't know if the charge will ever be high enough to operate the lander again," Paolo Ferri, ESA's head of mission operations, told The Associated Press.

"It is highly unlikely that we will establish any kind of communication any time soon, but nevertheless the orbiter will continue to listen for possible signals — the next time they will do so at 11 am (1000GMT, 5 a.m. EST) this morning."

On Thursday, Philae landed next to a cliff that largely blocked sunlight from reaching its solar panels.

The prospect of US-Russia nuclear war

Most Americans live in their myths, and these myths are immune to facts. Some Americans become angry when confronted with information inconsistent with their preconceptions. I began learning this back in the newsprint era from letters, and the lesson has continued from emails and comment sections on websites.

Boko Haram invades two towns in NE Nigeria

A screengrab taken on November 9, 2014 from a video released by the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram

Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - Scores of Boko Haram fighters on Thursday invaded two towns in northeast Nigeria's Adamawa state after hunters and civilian vigilantes reportedly ousted them from a key town, residents told AFP.

Russia to G-20: We're here. So are our warships.

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Vladimir Putin is underlining his presence at a major summit of world leaders in Australia by stationing warships in waters off the country's northeastern coast, prompting the Australian prime minister to angrily accuse Russia of trying to reclaim the "lost glories" of the Soviet Union.

AP Exclusive: Drones patrol half of Mexico border

SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. government now patrols nearly half the Mexican border by drones alone in a largely unheralded shift to control desolate stretches where there are no agents, camera towers, ground sensors or fences, and it plans to expand the strategy to the Canadian border.

Russian bomber patrols to reach Gulf of Mexico

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's long-range bombers will conduct regular patrol missions from the Arctic Ocean to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, the military said Wednesday, a show of muscle reflecting tensions with the West over Ukraine.

A statement from Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu came as NATO's chief commander accused Moscow of sending new troops and tanks into Ukraine — a claim quickly rejected by Russia.

Shoigu said the tensions with the West over Ukraine would require Russia to also beef up its forces in the Crimea, the Black Sea Peninsula that Russia annexed in March.

Obama denies US role in Hong Kong protests

The United States has had no role in the ongoing pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong, US President Barack Obama has said.

Responding to a question at a joint news conference with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, Obama said: “On the issue of Hong Kong, which did come up in our conversations, I was unequivocal in saying to President Xi that the United States had no involvement in fostering the protests that took place there.”

Ericsson ranks Lagos first in ICT maturity improvement index

Ericsson has ranked Lagos first in ICT maturity improvement 2013-2014 index. Also, Ericsson in its latest Networked Society City Index, ranked Lagos (Nigeria) number 38 in a list of 40.

The index ranks 40 cities and measures their ICT maturity in terms of leverage from ICT INVESTMENTS in economic, social and environmental development: the “triple bottom line” effect.

Dutch team in fresh bid to recover MH17 wreckage

Dutch investigators accompanied by armed rebels arrived near the MH17 crash site in eastern Ukraine Tuesday hoping to recover debris from the doomed airliner amid fears all-out fighting could break out again.

Around a dozen experts arrived in a convoy of cars but were not permitted to enter the zone where the Malaysia Airlines plane crashed in July, killing 298 people, in remote rebel-held territory east of Donetsk.

Court jails captain of capsized South Korean ferry to 36 years

Gwangju, South Korea (CNN) -- Lee Joon-seok, the captain widely derided by families for leaping to safety while the hundreds of people remained inside the sinking South Korean ferry, was sentenced Tuesday to 36 years in jail.

China's massive military machine goes

Editor's note: Reuben F. Johnson is a correspondent for IHS Jane's Defence Weekly, a publication devoted to defense and security intelligence and analysis. The views expressed are his own.

Zhuhai, China (CNN) -- All nations that hold large, aerospace expositions are on some level hoping that they will create the impression they have a modern industrial complex that puts them into the exclusive "club" of nations that build their own planes -- or at least some of the important components that go into them.

US, Iran meet to reach nuclear deal

The United States and Iran held high-level talks in Oman as the deadline for a nuclear deal loomed closer, but President Barack Obama warned there might be no agreement.

US Secretary of State John Kerry met Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in the Gulf sultanate on Sunday, seeking to resolve key disputes that have left the West’s negotiations with the Islamic republic close to deadlock.

The two countries are now facing pressure at home over the talks with Obama reiterating in a CBS News interview screened on Sunday that the two sides were still wide apart.

Nigeria: Hold Jonathan, Others Responsible for Rot in Power Sector, Obasanjo Tells Nigerians

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has blamed the rot in the country's power sector on on the administrations that succeeded him, including the present under the leadership of President Goodluck Jonthan.

Mr. Obasanjo, who spoke at the 'First Green Legacy Moment with Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Leadership and Human Security in Africa' in Abeokuta., Ogun State, said the foundation for the little supply of electricity the country was currently enjoying was laid by his administration.

Adesina: How FG Ended 40 Years, N800bn Fertilizer Scam in 90 Days

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina

•   Agric sector yields $5.6bn growth in three years

Crusoe Osagie

The federal government on Monday explained how it managed to end the widespread fertiliser scam which had plagued the nation's agriculture sector for four decades in just three months, redirecting farming subsidies back to the actual farmers after 40 years of corruption that became institutionalised in the sector.

It also announced that in the past three years, not less that $5.6 billion of added investment had flowed into the nation's agriculture  sector, with food output rising by 21 million metric tonnes, food import cost dropping from N1.1 trillion to N635 billion and three million farming jobs created.

FG Puts Nigeria's Coal Deposit at 2.8 Billion Metric Tonnes

Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo

Chineme Okafor in Abuja

The federal government on Monday said Nigeria had about 2.8 billion metric tonnes of coal deposits left untapped for years now.

The government also stated that the use of these coal deposits, amongst other renewable energy sources to generate electricity for Nigeria could alleviate instances of vandalism of petroleum pipelines.

The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, said in a statement from the ministry in Abuja that the country's abundant coal, biomass, solar, wind and small hydro could provide possible insurance to deal with vandalism of pipelines.

Nebo said while signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Atlas Petroleum Corporation for a coal-to-power plant that Nigeria needs to harness all its potentials in developing her power sector.