NASA is so sure there will be a December 22, 2012, it has already posted a YouTube video titled "Why the World Didn't End Yesterday". Scientists say rumors on social media and the Internet of Earth's premature demise have been prompted by a misunderstanding of the ancient Mayan calendar, which runs through December 21, 2012. ...
12:44 PM, Dec 21, 2012
As the appointed time came and went in several parts of the world, there was no sign of the apocalypse. No Armageddon. ...
06:53 AM, Dec 21, 2012
A sampling of the outpouring of love and memories from the Hollywood and sports worlds following the death of Michael Clarke Duncan, many of them on Twitter: - "I am terribly saddened at the loss of Big Mike. He was the treasure we all discovered on the set of The Green Mile. He was magic. He was a big love of man and his passing leaves us stunned." - Tom...
11:34 AM, Sep 04, 2012
Los Angeles: Michael Clarke Duncan, the hulking, prolific character actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row inmate in The Green Mile and such other box office hits as Armageddon, Planet of the Apes and Kung Fu Panda, is dead at age 54. Duncan died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was being treated for a heart attack, said his...
10:59 AM, Sep 04, 2012
London: In a space mission straight from the movie "Armageddon", astronauts are being trained to land on an asteroid, explore it for minerals and even destroy the object if it threatens the Earth. NASA wants humans to make contact with an asteroid up to three million miles away by the end of the next decade, something far beyond the scope of Earth-Moon space flight in 1969. Travelling at around 80,000...
04:58 PM, May 13, 2012
Los Angeles: Southern Californians were making the ultimate sacrifice on Saturday to avoid the dreaded 'Carmageddon' - leaving their cars in the garage. Unusually light traffic flowed freely through the nation's second-largest city despite fears of epic traffic jams spawned by the 53-hour shutdown of a 10-mile stretch of one of the region's most critical freeways. Authorities closed the segment of Interstate 405 on the western side of the metropolis...
09:39 AM, Jul 17, 2011
Los Angeles: A 10-mile stretch of one of the nation's busiest freeways has turned into a virtual ghost road. Ramps to the normally clogged Interstate 405 began shutting down on Friday evening before the entire roadway was closed at midnight, setting the stage for a 53-hour construction project that will test whether this car-dependent city can change its driving habits for a weekend. For weeks, authorities have urged residents to...
05:39 PM, Jul 16, 2011
Los Angeles: Business owners touted promotions Wednesday aimed at cashing in on the upcoming closure of part of heavily traveled Interstate 405, while city officials sought to assure the public that they were ready for the effects of a possible traffic nightmare during what's being dubbed "Carmageddon" in freeway-dependent Southern California. Beginning Friday evening, authorities will begin shutting down a 10-mile segment of the freeway for 53 hours so crews...
01:08 PM, Jul 14, 2011
