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  • TOPSHOT - A Syrian youth checks the site of Syrian government bombardments in Hamouria, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on February 22, 2018. The Syrian regime rained rockets and bombs on Eastern Ghouta, killing several civilians as international pressure mounted to stop the carnage in the rebel-held enclave. / AFP PHOTO / ABDULMONAM EASSAABDULMONAM EASSA/AFP/Getty Images

    UN Security Council adopts Syria ceasefire resolution

    By Chandrika Narayan, CNN
    Not long after the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution calling for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria, regime military aircraft hit targets in the besieged Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta, activists said Saturday night.
  • Alabama's aborted execution of inmate was botched, lawyer says

    Alabama's aborted execution was 'botched and bloody,' lawyer says

    By Chandrika Narayan, CNN
    A federal judge has ordered Alabama prison officials to preserve all evidence related to an aborted execution, including the clothing the inmate wore, following an unsuccessful lethal injection attempt that the convict's attorney described as "botched and bloody."
  • The InSight Lander This artist's concept shows the InSight lander, its sensors, cameras and instruments. InSight is will take the first-ever-in-depth look at Mars' "inner space." InSight stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. Its three instruments are a seismometer, a heat flow probe, and a radio science experiment. These instruments will shed light on how warm and geologically active Mars still is, study its reflexes as it whips about in its orbit around the sun, and provide essential clues on the evolution of the rocky planets of our solar system. So while InSight is a Mars mission, it's also more than a Mars mission. InSight will launch between May 5 through June 8, 2018 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. JPL, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the InSight Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space, Denver, built the spacecraft. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, which is managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. For more information about the mission, go to: https://mars.nasa.gov/insight.

    NASA launches mission to Mars

    By Chandrika Narayan, CNN
    Mars is about to get its first thorough checkup since it formed billions of years ago, as NASA's InSight heads to the red planet after launching Saturday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California