The next rover to Mars should hunt for signs of ancient life and gather rocks that a future mission could bring back to Earth for the first time, a team of scientists appointed by the U.S. space agency said Tuesday.
The scientists' new report outlines ambitious goals for a mission to Mars that NASA wants to launch in 2020.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday honored fashion designer Oscar de la Renta, the man responsible for a teal, silk pantsuit she wore when she was sworn in as a U.S. senator.
The two shared the stage together last month in New York when Clinton, a self-professed pantsuit aficionado, presented de la Renta with the Council of Fashion Designers of America's highest honor and joked about a fictional "Project Runway" spinoff, "Project Pantsuit."
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck is leaving the desk at "The View" for the couch on Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends."
The news network said Tuesday that Hasselbeck will join co-anchors Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade on the three-hour morning show "Fox & Friends" in September. Wednesday will be her last day after a decade on "The View."
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Elton John has canceled a show in London's Hyde Park due to appendicitis that will require surgery.
A statement issued Tuesday by the musician's publicist said John was suffering from an inflamed appendix and surrounding abscess.
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The Nigeria Football Federation announced it has suspended all four teams involved in "scandalous scorelines" after two lower league clubs chasing promotion and needing to boost their goal difference won games by 79-0 and 67-0.
In the matches, played at the same time, Plateau United Feeders reportedly scored 72 of their goals in the second half to beat Akurba FC 79-0. Police Machine reportedly swept 61 goals past Babayaro FC in the second 45 minutes of their 67-0 game.
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The Cleveland Cavaliers met Monday with free agent center Andrew Bynum, the oft-injured 7-footer who didn't play a single game for the Philadelphia 76ers last year because of a knee injury.
The 25-year-old Bynum, the most attractive center on the market now that Dwight Howard has signed with Houston, met with team officials at Cleveland Clinic Courts, the club's suburban facility, a person familiar with the visit told The Associated Press.
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Ewen McKenzie never disguised his desire to be Wallabies head coach. He wore the gold jersey in 51 tests, won the 1991 Rugby World Cup, and minutes after he was officially appointed to the Australian job, the ex-front-rower was already laying down the law.
Three days after the Wallabies' embarrassing 41-16 loss to the British and Irish Lions, the Australian Rugby Union on Tuesday ended months of speculation by confirming McKenzie as the replacement for Robbie Deans, who quit six months before his contract was due to expire.
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A glance at the list of men's singles champions at Wimbledon the last dozen years reveals plenty of pleasant-enough looking chaps, though not a single slam-dunk male model in the bunch.
No matter. Each one was instantly fawned over the moment he held the trophy aloft, celebrated for toughness, smarts and the kind of devotion that knows no quit.
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Mariah Carey is in the hospital for a shoulder injury.
The pop star's representative says the singer went to the hospital in New York late Sunday after injuring herself while filming a music video.
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Country music singer Randy Travis was in critical condition Monday night at a Texas hospital, a day after he was hospitalized for heart problems.
A news release from the singer's publicist said the 54-year-old Travis was admitted to the hospital Sunday in Dallas and was in critical condition Monday evening.
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