While the SpaceX rocket launched Tuesday takes supplies to the International Space Station, it also released samples of the remains of some 300 people, including an astronaut and a man who played a space traveler on television and in movies. Astronaut Gordon Cooper, who died in 2004, and Star Trek actor James Doohan, who died in 2005, are among those who chose to have several grams of their ashes launched on a "memorial spaceflight" with the help of a private company called ...

ADDIS ABABA - The United Nations special envoy for Somalia says the "Road Map" peace deal signed last September is on track to produce a breakthrough in ending the Horn of Africa country's 20-year political vacuum. It won't be easy, but three months before the end of the U.N.-backed transitional government, leaders of Somalia's fractious political entities seem committed to working together in a post-transition arrangement.  U.N. special envoy for Somalia ...