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The rocket war, one of the most beautiful and dangerous Easter spectacles in Greece, will be revived on Saturday evening on the island of Chios. ... just before Orthodox Easter Sunday firing thousands of homemade rockets at each other's church — while the more pious among them attend a service inside.

Yesterday, we told you about Marvel's plans to team up with Quicken Loans for cross-promotion of Avengers: Infinity War and Rocket Mortgage. Rocket Mortgage is a smartphone app that allows people to get approved for an expensive mortgage with the click of a button in less than eight minutes, which is ...

The Wizards beat the Rockets in D.C. back in late December which was one of Washington's best games of the season. They held James Harden to 20 points and held the Rockets to 29% shooting from 3-point range. Washington tied a franchise record with 18 3-pointers, a mark they tied again on Saturday ...

Tonight, the Rockets went back to their brand of basketball and got out of the shooting slump they had been in for the past few games. Leading the charge tonight was James Harden, which was not a surprise, but he got the invisible monkey off his back, especially from behind the three-point line. The MVP ...

James Harden toyed with Wizards, scoring 38 points on 12-of-18 shooting as the Rockets blew out the Wizards, 120-104 on Tuesday night. Clint Capela added 21 points on 9-of-10 shooting and Gerald Green added 16 off the bench as the Rockets buried the Wizards before they even had a chance in this ...

The Rockets fell to the Spurs in San Antonio Sunday afternoon by a score of 100-83. The loss snapped an 11-game winning streak for the Rockets and gave the Rockets their first loss in a little over three weeks. This was also the lowest point total for the Rockets all season. Their previous low was 89 points ...

App Attack is a weekly series where we search the App Store and Google Play Store for the best apps of the week. Check out App Attack every Sunday for the latest. No matter how old you are, anything space related is always going to be interesting — whether it's rockets, astronauts, or the solar system.

The solution they settled on was for the Air Force to sign deals with the space industry to co-finance the development of new rocket propulsion systems. The program known as the “launch service agreement” fits the Air Force's broader goal to get out of the business of “buying rockets” and instead acquire ...

Despite the absence of Chris Paul, the Houston Rockets annihilated the New Orleans Pelicans for their 59th win of the season. The way this team is playing, ... lead in the first quarter. Despite only shooting 1-10 from behind the arc, the Rockets shot 52 percent from the field, which gave way to the big lead.

You can now hop into H1Z1's Auto Royale mode with a buddy. The latest update brings duos to the game mode, which features up to 60 teams facing off to be the last vehicle standing. The latest update also adds a new weapon - the rocket launcher.The guided rocket launcher deals high explosive damage ...

A rocket attack killed 35 in a Damascus shopping district, in one of the deadliest rebel attacks on the Syrian capital, on Tuesday, as bombardment by the government and its allies left dozens of civilians dead in an opposition stronghold. The state media said the opposition fire had hit the area of Jaramana, ...

Grief and stitches at Damascus hospital after rocket attack ... Ilham's daughter was among 35 people killed in an rebel rocket attack on a shopping area in a Damascus suburb on Tuesday, the eve of Mother's Day. ... It was one of the deadliest rebel rocket attacks to hit the capital in Syria's seven-year war.

35 citizens were martyred and scores others injured on Tuesday in a terrorist attack with rocket shells on residential neighborhoods of Damascus and its surroundings. A police source told SANA that the death toll raised to 35 persons martyred and nine others were injured, of which a woman and child, in a ...

Rebels in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region fired the rockets at Kashkoul, police told the Sana news agency. Six other civilians were injured in a separate attack to the west, they said. Rebel groups have stepped up artillery attacks since pro-government forces launched a major air and ground assault on ...

This photo released by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows members of the White Helmets carrying a man who was wounded after airstrikes and shelling hit in Arbeen, in the eastern Ghouta region near Damascus, ...

AMMAN: At least 29 people were killed and scores injured on Tuesday when a rocket landed in a busy market place in an eastern suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus, state media said. The rocket landed in the Kashkoul market close to rebel-held parts of Eastern Ghouta, which has been under heavy ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Rockets fired on a market in a government-controlled neighborhood of Damascus on Tuesday killed 35 people and wounded more than ... of President Bashar Assad's power, has come under increasing attack as government forces continue to pound rebel-held eastern Ghouta, with military ...

A police source told SANA the rocket landed in Kashkul market in the outskirts of Jaramana city, part of greater Damascus. The suburb, home to a largely Christian and Druze population, is under government control. It has repeatedly come under fire by rebel forces in nearby Eastern Ghouta, the Syrian army ...

The missile has also been referred to as the SA-4 Ganef, due to its NATO code, and was used in Afghanistan by the Soviet army during the Cold War in 1979 and 1980. Now the missile, built 50 years ago, will be auctioned off for an estimated fee around £25,000 next week at Summers Place Auctions in ...

North Korean rockets fitted with nuclear weapons 'can reach central Europe'. The deputy director of Germany's foreign intelligence agency BND says he is 'certain' about Kim Jong Un's military capability. 15:37, UK, Sunday 18 March 2018. Kim Jong Un has pushed ahead with North Korea's nuclear weapons ...

Despite a memorable second half, the Wolves couldn't come back from a 77-56 halftime deficit, falling to the Houston Rockets and dropping their second game in a row. This one ... It was a major energy shift for the Wolves, who locked down on defense, shutting down the Rockets' three-point attack. Shortly ...

Thursday night, after his Clippers lost to the Rockets in Houston, Doc Rivers described the officiating as “a complete joke” and all but chalked up the .... James Harden's shot does not look like that—it is not a side-winding, lunging action, with his feet shooting out to the side like he's doing a jumping jack.

Bases on the moon and Mars could help preserve human civilisation and hasten its regeneration on earth in the event of a third world war, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, said on Sunday. Mr Musk, the founder of rocket and spacecraft company SpaceX, said the company's interplanetary ship could ...

A previously-undisclosed payload funded by a U.S. military research agency rode into orbit with a Spanish communications satellite on SpaceX's most recent Falcon 9 rocket launch March 6, officials said Friday. The small spacecraft was fastened inside the Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite, then ...

The Houston Rockets were without James Harden in Dallas, but it did not matter. The Rockets got red hot from 3-point range in the second half and coasted to a blowout 105-82 win over the Dallas Mavericks. The win also marked Houston's second straight series sweep of the Mavericks. The game had the ...

A new line of Hot Toys figures from Avengers: Infinity War is showing off the impressive size difference between Groot and Rocket the Racoon in the Russo Brothers' upcoming movie. While the Guardians of the Galaxy were largely absent from the Infinity War trailer, fans know that Star-Lord and co. will play ...

More than two dozen satellites from the U.S. military, NASA and research institutions will ride into orbit on SpaceX's second Falcon Heavy rocket launch, ... Customer payloads will ride on future Falcon Heavy rockets, beginning with the Air Force-managed STP-2 mission, slated to loft small satellites for ...

Russia has a new class of weapons, President Vladimir V. Putin said on Thursday, that could make American defenses obsolete. ... about nuclear-armed cruise missiles, that's a technological breakthrough and a gigantic achievement,” said Aleksandr M. Golts, an independent Russian military analyst.

More than 57,000 illegal firearms, including a rocket launcher and First and Second World War machine guns, were handed in during a recent Australian gun amnesty. In the three months to September, gun owners could surrender their weapons without penalty. Police collected 57,324 firearms, including ...

Thousands of automatic rifles, handguns and a rocket launcher are among the weapons handed in during last year's National Firearms Amnesty. The final results, released today, show 57,324 firearms were handed in between July and September across Australia to be registered or destroyed. Authorities ...

An 18-year-old in Pennsylvania has been arrested after threatening to blow up his school with rocket launchers. Brennen Michael Shenk, a student at Eastern York High School in Wrightsville, has been charged with terroristic threats with the intent to terrorize another, terroristic threats that cause serious ...

Someone found the World War II-era M6 60 Caliber Bazooka anti-tank rocket inside a wall while they were remodeling a home in Newport News, Battalion Chief Jerry Reed said at the ... They put it in a secure container for it to be transported, and it will be turned over to the military on Tuesday, Reed said.

On Twitter early this morning, Ryan Fitz flagged something weird: Google Shopping returns no results for any search containing the word “gun.” Nothing with "gun" in it gets any Google Shopping results, not even if part of another unrelated word. Try it. pic.twitter.com/rUc87l3fkD. — Ryan Fitz ...

What if I told you that the Houston Rockets have been the best team in the league, and the most-prolific three-point shooting team in NBA history, and their best shooter has been on a season-long shooting slump? What if I told you that that same shooter seems to have officially snapped out of said slump?

Fortnite's latest update delivered the guided missile launcher, finally giving solo players a way to join in on the rocket-riding fun. If you're not up to date, individual RPGs have collision, so with good timing players can hop on and zip across the map. It's led to some ridiculous plays. But Reddit user hottshy is ...

The area is now being hit by incendiary bombs that are appearing in the night skies, weapons that are intended to start large fires when they hit the ground. The opposition holds Russia and Iran responsible for the continuing bombardment, calling it a "genocide". Al Jazeera's Osama Bin Javaid reports from ...