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  The big day has arrived for the American probe Osiris-Rex: after four years of travel, it will hit the asteroid Bennu to pick up a few tens of grams of dust, a high-precision operation 320 million kilometers away from Earth. (Photo by Handout / NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University / AFP) WASHINGTON: After a four-year journey, NASA's robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex will descend to asteroid Bennu's boulder-strewn surface on Tuesday, touching down for a few seconds to collect rock and dust samples in a precision operation 200 million miles (330 million kilometers) from Earth. Last year, Japan managed with its Hayabusa2 probe to collect some dust from another asteroid, Ryugu, and is now on its way home. With Osiris-Rex, NASA hopes to collect a much larger sample -- at least 60 grams -- which it hopes will reveal the original ingredients of the solar system. The spacecraft, about the size of a large van, is at this moment in position about a kilometer above Bennu, which is 490 me

Cengiz claims losses and injuries over Khashoggi's death.  - File image FRIEND Jamal Khashoggi filed a civil suit against the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia on charges of ordering the murder of the Washington Post columnist. Hatice Cengiz filed the suit in Washington DC, USA. In the suit, Cengiz, a Turkish national, claimed losses and injuries over Khashoggi's death. He claimed Khashoggi was killed on the orders of Prince Mohammed Salman. Lawyers representing Cengiz informed that a suit was filed to seek defense in Khashoggi's murder. They also want to get documents that will reveal the truth behind the murder. Khashoggi was assassinated by a Saudi Arabian agent while visiting a consulate building in Istanbul, Turkey in 2018. To date, his body has not been found. Khashoggi is among the permanent critics of the Saudi Arabian government and lives in exile in the US. Prince Mohammed Salman, however, denied any involvement in Khashoggi's murder case.

  FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump attends a service at the International Church of Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., October 18, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria LAS VEGAS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump called coronavirus expert Anthony Fauci a "disaster" on Monday, airing his frustration with the scientist during a call meant to reassure campaign staff he has a path to victory on Nov. 3 despite trailing in opinion polls. powered by Rubicon Project Trump and Fauci, a member of his coronavirus task force, have been at odds over how best to handle a pandemic that has killed more than 219,000 people in the United States and weakened the Republican president's case for re-election. Fauci, 79, who has served under Republican and Democratic presidents and is one of the most admired scientists in the United States, has urged that COVID-19 continue to be taken seriously. Trump has suggested the worst has passed. "Fauci is a disaster. If I listened to

The protesters reiterated their demands for political change including the resignation of the prime minister, the dissolution of parliament, constitutional amendments and reform of the monarchy.  -File image BANGKOK:  Thousands of protesters gathered at three locations in Bangkok thus denying a ban on participating in demonstrations on the fifth day. Armed with brief notices from the organizers, protesters gathered at the Kasetsart intersection in Bangkok and the Ministry of Public Health's Metropolitan Railway Transit (MRT) station. They also gathered at the Bangkok Remand Prison where student leaders and activists were detained. The protesters reiterated their demands for political change including the resignation of the prime minister, the dissolution of parliament, constitutional amendments and reform of the monarchy. The organizers of today's demonstration did not announce the venue in advance to avoid the intervention of the authorities. At the same time, demonstrations