The chief face of the pro-Kremlin parties is Mr Putin, whose approval ratings still hover between 70% and 80%.

ECONOMIST: The Russian elections

These eye-in-the-sky cell towers hover between 70, 000 and 100, 000-feet and provide coverage for a 200-mile radius on Earth- but the darn things only stay aloft for 24 to 48 hours before freefalling to the ground (or tree, or lake, or Grand Canyon).

ENGADGET: Cash-in on your geocaching skillz

Those chemicals, which hover at cold-miser temperatures between minus 180 and minus 230 degrees Celsius, let the chip go into overdrive mode without overheating and breaking.

CNN: John D. Sutter,

The idea is to send a satellite to hover alongside a threatening asteroid and, using the gravitational attraction between the two objects, to pull the asteroid gradually off course.

ECONOMIST: The American Association for the Advancement of Science

Yet at the same time, season ticket price rises hover just below or slightly above the rate of inflation, with an increase of between 55% and 80%.

BBC: Have train fares gone up or down since British Rail?