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Fifteen arrested after Belgium shootout

Belgian police were questioning 13 suspects on Friday detained during raids against an Islamist group they feared planned to attack police and two other people were held inFrance, state prosecutors said. A spokesman told a news conference there was still no apparent link to last week’s Islamist attacks in Paris and the identities of two gunmen killed during one of the raids on Thursday, in the eastern town of Verviers, had yet to be confirmed. […]

Britain’s missing spacecraft found on Mars

Britain’s “Beagle 2” spacecraft, once dubbed “a heroic failure” by the nation’s Astronomer Royal, was re-branded “a great success” on Friday (January 16) for being found on Mars 11 years after going missing. Beagle 2, part of a European Space Agency’s Mars Express missionsearching for extraterrestrial life, had been due to land on Mars on Christmas Day 2003, but disappeared on December 19, 2003. Until now, nothing had been heard from it. But at a packed […]