The reopening of the probe set off a chain of events that ultimately led News Corp. to close the 168-year-old News of the World.
Unmanned missions will precede that, though -- indeed, a new Moon probe is set to be the first launch from the aforementioned Vostochny Cosmodrome.
We've seen mechanical devices creep through the inside of intestines, huge mounds of dirt, and even through the San Francisco Bay, but now a British deep-diving remotely operated vehicle ( ROV) is getting set to probe the depths of Antarctica.
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The probe into alleged bribery was set up alongside the police investigation into phone hacking.
Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych said a special investigation team will be set up to probe the explosions, the news agency reported.
Now, Dell, which roared to the top of the PC industry in the 1990s, will have to move from a difficult accounting probe to sparring with a set of hardened competitors for market share.
The decision to close the probe is part of a set of events in which the government will first ask a federal judge to disband the grand jury that was hearing the case, then request the case documents to be unsealed.
The discovery of another moon around Pluto is exciting news for planetary science, but it's also likely causing some anxiety for the team in charge of New Horizons, a spacecraft set to be the first probe ever to visit the dwarf planet.
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's Management Standards Committee, an internal panel set up by the company to probe suspected misconduct.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asked the academy in May to probe the Gulf disaster, saying he wanted "a set of fresh eyes on the issues surrounding" the incident and an independent, science-based understanding of what happened.
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According to Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin, the space agency has about two weeks to communicate with the probe and give it the commands to fire its boosters and set course for Phobos.
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Now MPs are trying to formalise their gains and set out an explicit system for approving them - both to probe their attitudes and priorities and to decide whether they are being offered a stooge, a place-person or a genuinely independent-minded figure, capable, if necessary, of saying "no" to ministers.
The country in 2003 sought United Nations support to set up the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague to probe the Liberia-aligned rebel groups that killed 50, 000 people around the turn of the century.
The grand jurors also found that a panel set up by the archdiocese to handle abuse claims following an earlier grand jury probe in 2005 had worked mostly to protect the church.
The 13-tonne mission was initially lifted into a 350km-high orbit above Earth, with the expectation that the probe's big engine would fire twice - first, to raise that orbit, and, second, to set course for Mars.
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