50% chance of finding missing IAF plane: Experts

Chennai: The probability of finding the missing AN-32 aircraft of Indian Air Force or its debris in the search area of 5,000km is 50%, according to Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services that is providing coordinates for the search and rescue operation. Once extended the search to 9,000km, the probability goes down to 20%, an officer told TOI.

Making it count: Panel encourages Kitsap to understand the power of privilege

From left: Susanne Joan Gamber, an activist and Veteran of the United States Air Force; Jeremiah Allen, a Queer, Trans African-American and Indigenous tribal member of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians and Lakota Sioux tribe; Nathaniel Rhysnburger, group leader with West Sound Transbrella; and Mitchell C. Hunter, a transman activist, leader, and spokesman in the transgender community. BREMERTON - On Friday, July 15, members of the public and the Kitsap County Council for Human Rights gathered for a forum discussing the transgender experience, intersectionality and implicit bias in our community.

US says Guantanamo base worker got Zika after Jamaica trip

Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, an avowed white supremacist, officially signed up Friday to run for U.S. Senate in Louisiana. President Barack Obama fiercely rejected Donald Trump's depiction of an America in crisis on Friday, arguing that violent crime and illegal immigration have plunged under his leadership to their lowest rates in... President Barack Obama fiercely rejected Donald Trump's depiction of an America in crisis on Friday, arguing that violent crime and illegal immigration have plunged under his leadership to their lowest rates in decades.

Cincinnati cop investigated over post slamming white police

A black Cincinnati police officer is under investigation over a Facebook post that mentioned that white officers "are looking for a reason to kill a black man." A black Cincinnati police officer is under investigation over a Facebook post that mentioned that white officers "are looking for a reason to kill a black man."

Brazil arrests 10 in alleged Olympics terror plot

Donald Trump opponents are planning more protests outside the Republican National Convention in Cleveland as the event reaches it finale. The organizers of a flag-burning outside the Republican convention that resulted in 17 arrests denied on Thursday that the man holding the American flag was on fire and said police used that as an excuse to move in.

Spain demands explanation over collision of UK Navy sub

Spain is seeking an urgent explanation from British authorities after a Royal Navy submarine was forced into port in Gibraltar following a collision with a merchant vessel. In a statement Thursday, the Foreign Ministry said the government was seeking all information from the British embassy in Madrid regarding the damage done to the submarine and how the prior day's incident occurred.

Yo-ho-ho and an autonomous boat: Smart watercraft could help the Navy fight pirates

We've all heard a lot about autonomous cars and there's been plenty written about drones taking to the air, but we've not seen so much discussion about boats, or autonomous watercraft. BAE Systems has been working on autonomous naval technologies, in a project that has sprung up surprisingly quickly.

Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Thursday 21 Jul 2016

US senator Ted Cruz, a failed challenger for the Republican nomination for the presidency, was booed at the party's convention yesterday for not endorsing his former rival Donald Trump. Cruz - who described Trump in May as "a pathological liar", "a narcissist" and "utterly immoral" - left the stage under a barrage of protest.

GOP Convention: Doom and gloom at home, clamor for Trump

John Tiegen, a U.S. Marine Corp veteran and Mark Geist, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who fought in Benghazi, L-R, speak during the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Monday, July 18, 2016. Pat Smith, mother of Benghazi victim Sean Smith, salutes after speaking during the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Monday, July 18, 2016.

GOP speakers to focus on Benghazi as convention opens

Republicans are reminding the nation that Hillary Clinton was secretary of state during the deadly 2012 attacks on a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, part of a broader focus on national security at the GOP convention. Pat Smith, the mother of Sean Smith , a State Department employee who was killed in Benghazi, is one of several speakers Monday night tied to the twin attacks on Sept.

The Latest: Hundreds of demonstrators support Turkish gov’t

For the fourth night in a row, hundreds of demonstrators have taken to Turkey's squares in a new show of support for the government after a failed coup attempt. First called for by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the night of the coup, the "democracy meetings" have been held in all of Turkey's major cities every night for the past four nights.

‘Earthquake’ reported off Florida waters was really a Navy test

Remember all that social media buzz over the weekend about an earthquake off the coast of Daytona Beach? Never mind. It appears the “earthquake” detected by the U.S. Geological Survey on Saturday was really triggered by a manmade explosion designed to test the seaworthiness of a new Navy vessel.

Port Chicago explosion anniversary marked as US focuses on race

On a day when America's struggle with racial issues raged again, hundreds of Bay Area residents gathered in the East Bay to remember a mostly forgotten race-tinged incident that occurred 72 years earlier, taking the lives of 202 African Americans and leaving 50 more convicted of mutiny. The annual commemoration of the horrific Port Chicago explosion took place not at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine, which President Obama made a national memorial in 2009, but a couple of miles inland under a large, wind-buffeted white tent.