Abbey Westbury

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – NASA is poised to launch its latest X-ray space telescope on a two-year hunt for hard-to-see objects lurking in the heart of the Milky Way and other galaxies.

GENEVA – Twenty-four years ago Aung San Suu Kyi left Europe for what was then a military-controlled nation called Burma. She returns Wednesday the icon of Myanmar’s democracy movement to a continent eager to hear from her whether the country’s recent reforms truly spell the end of its cruel dictatorship.

MCGREGOR, Texas – NASA’s administrator is to visit the history-making Dragon spacecraft at a Texas rocket factory.

TOKYO – Japan has evidence vehicles that could be used for transporting and launching missiles were exported to North Korea by a Chinese company in possible violation of United Nations’ trade restrictions on weapons technology, Japanese media reported Wednesday.

BERLIN – Berlin police have released the photo of a teenage boy who wandered into the city almost nine months ago saying he had been living for the past five years in the forest with his father.

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Disney is done with its do-over of Disney California Adventure.

OMAHA, Neb. – An Alliance, Neb., official says “the ordeal is over” in a daylong standoff with a gunman who was holed up in a pharmacy.