New York: The Laos adventure 'The Rocket' and the Afghanistan War documentary 'The Kill Team' have taken top honors at the Tribeca Film Festival.
In an awards ceremony Thursday evening in New York, festival jurors selected Kim Mordaunt's 'The Rocket' for best narrative film. Its 10-year-old star won best actor. The young Sitthiphon Disamoe stars as Aholo, who enters a rocket festival to help save his poverty-stricken family that's been uprooted for the construction of a dam.
Taking best documentary was Dan Krauss' 'The Kill Team,' an examination of the so-named group of U.S. soldiers charged with killing Afghan civilians.
Earlier Thursday, the festival awarded its first recipient of the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize, an award for female filmmakers. The prize went to writer-director Meera Menon. Her first film, 'Farah Goes Bang,' chronicles friends making a road trip to campaign for John Kerry during the 2004 presidential election....
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11:40 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Baga: Fighting between Nigeria's military and Islamic extremists killed at least 185 people in a fishing community in the nation's far northeast, officials said on Sunday, an attack that saw insurgents fire rocket-propelled grenades and soldiers spray machine-gun fire into neighborhoods filled with civilians. The fighting in Baga began on Friday and lasted for hours, sending people fleeing into the arid scrublands surrounding the community on Lake Chad. By Sunday,...
06:40 AM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: Moving forward on its plans to rope in the industry in its activities, ISRO is looking towards the launch of the first privately built rocket in the next five years. The Indian Space Research Organisation has embarked on hiving off production of communication satellites and polar satellite launch vehicles (PSLVs) to the industry. "We are now setting up a national committee to work out the modalities on how...
03:20 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Jerusalem: Israel shut a crossing with Gaza after rockets were fired from the Hamas-ruled territory at the Jewish state on the day it commemorated the Holocaust. The military said it closed the Kerem Shalom terminal on Monday. Another crossing would be open for humanitarian cases only, it said. Israel has blockaded the coastal territory since the Islamic militant Hamas took over in 2007. Israeli police said several rockets were fired...
01:00 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: India plans to launch a next generation rocket to put heavier satellites and more astronauts into outer space within a year, a top official said on Wednesday. "The first experimental flight of the GSLV Mark III will take place one year from now," K Radhakrishnan, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation told the Annual General Meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry in New Delhi. The new rocket, which...
11:24 PM, Apr 03, 2013
North Korea has put its rocket units on standby on Friday to attack US mainland and military bases in South Korea and the Pacific, after the United States flew two nuclear-capable stealth bombers over the Korean peninsula in a rare show of force. ...
10:19 AM, Mar 29, 2013
Warning Israel that it was at a "crossroads", US President Barack Obama on Friday voiced his opposition to Tel Aviv's controversial settlement activities and said America was "deeply committed" to create an independent, sovereign state of Palestine. ...
09:45 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Syrian air force jets fired four rockets at a remote section of the border with Lebanon on Monday, security sources said, four days after Damascus warned it may strike at Syrian rebels taking refuge across the frontier. ...
12:15 AM, Mar 19, 2013
All is set for the launch of Indo-French satellite 'SARAL', aimed at oceanographic studies, and six foreign mini and micro satellites onboard ISRO's workhorse rocket PSLV from the spaceport of Sriharikota in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh on Monday. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C20 is slated for blast-off at 5.56 pm local time from the first launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre, 110 kms from here. President Pranab Mukherjee is...
10:42 AM, Feb 25, 2013
The fuelling of the second stage of the Indian rocket that would sling seven satellites into space on February 25 evening is expected to be done by Monday morning while the countdown for the launch is progressing smoothly, said officials of the Indian space agency. ...
04:41 AM, Feb 25, 2013
The countdown for the Monday evening launch of an Indian rocket that would sling into orbit the world's first smart phone-operated nano satellite and a space telescope satellite - and five others including an Indo-French satellite - is progressing smoothly, an official of the Indian space agency said. ...
03:40 AM, Feb 24, 2013
Rockets struck two eastern districts of Aleppo city on Friday, killing at least 12 people and trapping many families in the ruins of their homes, activists in the city said. ...
01:20 AM, Feb 23, 2013
North Korea stepped up its bellicose rhetoric on February 1 threatening to go beyond carrying out a promised third nuclear test in response to what it believes are "hostile" sanctions imposed after a December rocket launch. The North frequently employs fiery rhetoric aimed at South Korea and the United States and in 2010 was blamed for sinking a South Korean naval vessel. It also shelled a South Korean island in...
06:23 PM, Feb 05, 2013
South Korea launched its first space rocket carrying a science satellite on Wednesday amid heightened regional tensions, caused in part, by North Korea's successful launch of its own rocket in December. It was South Korea's third attempt to launch a civilian rocket to send a satellite in orbit in the past four years and came after two previous launches were aborted at the eleventh hour in December due to technical...
06:40 PM, Jan 30, 2013
India had launched a series of missiles, rockets and dropped experimental bombs to divert attention of "snoopers" before conducting the 1998 nuclear tests, APJ Abdul Kalam, considered the father of India's missile programmee, said on Thursday. ...
03:28 AM, Jan 25, 2013
North Korea said on January 24 it would carry out further rocket launches and a nuclear test that would target the United States, dramatically stepping up its threats against a country it called its "enemy". The announcement by the country's top military body came a day after the United Nations Security Council agreed a US-backed resolution to censure and sanction the country for a rocket launch in December that breached...
11:11 AM, Jan 24, 2013
Peshawar: Five people were killed and over 40 people were injured in rocket attacks on Bacha Khan International Airport and nearby areas in Peshawar in Pakistan. The airport was sealed following the attacks. According to sources, at least three rockets were fired from unknown location at the airport, University Town and another residential neighbourhood at around 9 pm. Officials were quoted by TV news channels as saying that the rockets...
10:02 PM, Dec 15, 2012
United Nations: The UN Security Council on Wednesday condemned North Korea's missile launch and will continue discussions on how to respond to Pyongyang's violations of a UN ban on North Korean ballistic missile development, the council president said. "Members of the Security Council condemned this launch, which is a clear violation of Security Council resolutions 1718 and 1874," Moroccan UN Ambassador Mohammed Loulichki, president of the Security Council this month,...
09:18 AM, Dec 13, 2012
New Delhi: India on Wednesday reacted strongly to the rocket launch by North Korea, saying the "unwarranted action" by that country has adversely impact peace and stability in the Korean peninsula. In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs said India was concerned over the rocket launch which was in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1874. India also asked North Korea to refrain from such action. North Korea on...
12:57 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Seoul: Isolated and impoverished North Korea launched its second long- range rocket of 2012 on Wednesday in what it said was a bid to put a satellite into space. The North launched the rocket close to the first anniversary of the death of former leader Kim Jong-il and as elections loom in South Korea and Japan. The launch, reported by South Korean media, was confirmed by South Korea's Defense Ministry....
07:21 AM, Dec 12, 2012
