in a Damascus suburb the previous August . In his latest piece , Hersh documents the Pentagon ’s many failed efforts to pull the administration off its obsession with developing a coup in Damascus and recognize Islamic terrorists as the threat that matters in Syria . “ The assessment was bleak , ” Hersh writes of a classified document the Joint Chiefs brass sent the White House in 2013 .
Out at sea for tomorrow 's launch and landing attempt pic.twitter.com/9LMsj6qryI — SpaceX ( @SpaceX ) January 17 , 2016 This was the second successful mission SpaceX has carried out since disaster struck in July . That 's when SpaceX 's rocket explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionshortly after launch , destroying an unmanned spacecraft carrying supplies to the International Space Station . It returned to space missions in December when the company successfully carried satellites into low orbit in a mission for Orbcomm ( ORBC ) .
German explosion injures 12 A 27-year - old Syrian man who had been denied asylum died in an explosion at a music festival in the German town of Ansbach . It is believed a device he was carrying explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosion, although it was not clear if it was a suicide bombing or whether the man intended to plant the device : 12 people were injured . Germany is on edge after a shooting at a Munich shopping mall on Friday in which nine people died , and an axe attack on a train near Würzburg last Monday in which five were wounded . Ansbach blast : Syrian asylum seeker kills himself and injures 12 in Germany
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry , the shelling came from areas controlled by the al - Nusra Front and Faylaq al - Rahman militants . In a statement cited by Russian news agency Sputnik , the ministry said : “ The Russian diplomatic mission came under mortar shelling on October 3 . One of the mines explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionon the embassy area near its residential department . Fortunately , no one was wounded . The diplomatic mission sustained material damage .
49 53 Brussels March 22 , 2016 Nail bombings in Brussels Airport Two suicide bombers carrying homemade bombs in large suitcases attacked a departure hall at Brussels Airport in Zaventem . They explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionnine seconds apart . Another explosion took place just over an hour later in the middle carriage of a three - carriage train at Maalbeek metro station . 35 340 Istanbul January 12 , 2016 Suicide bomber detonates in the city 's tourist - heavy historical centre
Related : Video Shows Exploding Meteor Turning the Skies Green in Thailand Another 2,600-foot - wide asteroid is slated to pass by Earth at around the moon 's distance in 2027 . For comparison , the asteroid that is believed to have killed off the dinosaurs was a whopping six miles wide and released energy when it explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionthat was equivalent to a billion times the energy of an atomic bomb , NASA said . Stopping this sort of cosmic collision might seem impossible . But experts said it would probably be easier than the ordeal depicted by Bruce Willis in the 1998 disaster flick Armageddon , when astronauts split apart a Texas - sized asteroid using a nuclear bomb .
Reporter for Ukrainian Pravda and critic of leaders in Ukraine , Belarus and Russia was driving to work when car explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionA car bomb in Kiev has killed Pavel Sheremet , a pioneering journalist and outspoken critic of leaders in Belarus , Russia and Ukraine . Security camera footage showed the car had entered an intersection when an explosion ripped through it from underneath .
A Falcon 9 booster rocket explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionon the launch pad in Cape Canaveral , Florida , as tropical storm Hermine bore down on the area . An Israeli satellite that was to provide Facebook broadband to Africa was lost in the explosion , SpaceX confirmed . Moment of dramatic # SpaceX explosion A video posted by RT ( @rt ) on Sep 1 , 2016 at 12:45pm PDT
Watch video 01:19 Poland marks 1st anniversary of plane crash Now The committee head , Waclaw Berczynski , reiterated his theory that the Tupolev 154 explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionmid - air , without offering a stitch of evidence to substantiate his claim . " We can say with great probability , practically with near certainty , that the aircraft broke apart mid - air , " he told the Catholic weekly Gosc Niedzielny . But many , such as Rafal Grupinski , a lawmaker with the liberal opposition party Civic Platform ( PO ) , which was in power at the time of the crash , say some people simply have n't come to terms with reality .
— In total three bombs exploded , the governor told TRT . –One of them was located just outside a terminal on the pavement , while the other was at the security gate at the entrance to the airport , Bozdag told CNN . — Authorities said no bombs explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionwithin airport buildings , according to the minister . — A video posted to Twitter shows a view from a camera inside an airport terminal . A few dozen people are walking around when a bright flash and fireball erupt in the background .
Scientists fear asteroids , killer robots and deadly diseases could wipe out humanity This is the disarmingly named bomb which was devised during the Manhattan Project and then dropped on Hiroshima . It explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionwith the force of 15 kilotons of TNT , wiping out much of the Japanese city . The bomb worked by firing a " slug " of highly - refined uranium into a larger lump of the same element , causing a nuclear blast . When it exploded in the sky over Hiroshima , it destroyed more or less everything within a radius of a mile of the point of detonation .