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Kennedy Space Center, Florida (CNN) — NASA launched its Ares I-X rocket Wednesday, after multiple delays over two days because of bad weather.

The 327-foot rocket — which NASA considers the world’s largest — took off at 11:30 a.m. ET, 30 minutes before a noon deadline for the launch. It rose about 24 miles. About two minutes after liftoff, the first-stage, reusable rocket booster fell into the Atlantic, where it was to be picked up by a ship.

It was the first flight test for the Constellation Program, NASA’s next-generation spacecraft and launch vehicle system. The rocket’s launch is part of NASA’s mission to someday return astronauts to the moon and later travel to Mars.

NASA spokesman George Diller, who was moderating the launch preparations for broadcasters, communicated the frustration as launches were repeatedly called off with just minutes to go.

After 11 a.m., it appeared there would be a narrow window for a liftoff, and a half-hour later the rocket roared skyward.

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Karadzic faces 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against Bosnian Muslims, Bosnian Croats and other non-Serbian civilians during the brutal and bloody dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Bosnia and Herzegovina was a part of Yugoslavia at the time.

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The Hague, Netherlands (CNN) — U.N. judges adjourned the long-awaited war-crimes trial of Radovan Karadzic on Monday after the former Bosnian Serb leader refused to appear on the opening day.

Karadzic, who is accused of masterminding the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, claimed he did not have enough time to prepare his defense. (more…)

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Jerusalem (CNN) — Palestinians and Israeli police engaged in a standoff for more than five hours at Jerusalem’s holiest site Sunday, with police storming the site twice.

Eighteen people were arrested, and nine police officers were slightly injured, police said. About 25 Palestinians were hurt, with mild to moderate injuries, Palestinian medical sources said.

Israeli police entered the compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram Al-Sharif, after Muslim youths threw stones at security forces, a police spokesman said.

It took three hours of negotiations between Palestinians and police — including phone calls to the capitals of Jordan, Syria and Egypt — before more than 200 Palestinians agreed to leave the al-Aqsa mosque in the compound, said Mahdi Abdul Hadi, who was in the mosque.

He denied that the Palestinians had done anything to provoke the Israeli response.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) — A passenger flight from San Diego, California, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, overshot its destination airport by about 150 miles Wednesday, and federal investigators are looking into whether the pilots had become distracted, as they claimed, or perhaps fallen asleep.

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Air traffic controllers lost radio communication with the Northwest Airlines Airbus A320, carrying 147 passengers and an unknown number of crew, when it was flying at 37,000 feet, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. There was no communication with Flight 188 for more than an hour as it approached the airport, the board said.

When air traffic controllers finally made contact with the pilot, his answers were so vague that controllers feared the plane might have been hijacked, according to a source familiar with the incident.

The controllers in Minneapolis ordered the pilot to make a series of unnecessary maneuvers to convince them the pilots were in control of the flight, the source said, adding that fighter jets were poised in Madison, (more…)

Last month, final uncertified results showed Karzai with 54 percent of the vote, but a report by a U.N.-backed panel of election monitors said there was widespread fraud in the August 20 presidential election.

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Swine Flu: H1N1

Scott Pelley reports on the H1N1 flu - which is increasingly targeting young, healthy people - and how the government plans to fight the flu pandemic.

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CDC on H1N1 Vaccine Shortages

Maggie Rodriguez spoke the CDC’s Dr. Anne Schuchat about the delay in the H1N1 vaccine production until November or December, and the high risk for young adults and children.

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(CBS/ AP) A CDC official said Wednesday that vaccine for the H1N1 (swine flu) virus should be widely available by mid-November, but admitted distribution is slower than initially planned.

“We are a bit behind,” Dr. Anne Schuchat told CBS’ “The Early Show”.

Calling the production process “unpredictable,” Schuchat said, “We wish we had more vaccine.”

The CDC was hoping to have shipped 40 million doses by the end of October, the reality of having between 28 and 30 million makes for very difficult choices, CBS News reported last week.

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“The BCS has brought more popularity, more resources and more fun to college football since it started delivering a national title game each year,” he said. “It has also provided more opportunities for more players, teams and fans – in more conferences - to participate in the bowl atmosphere.”

“With all due respect, we think college football decisions should be made by college football, not the politicians in Washington,” said Hancock.

Barton called the BCS system “a farce.” A Texan, Barton saw his state’s strong team left out of the championship game last year as well.

“It arbitrarily selects champions and reduces competition between conferences,” he said. “College football’s post-season championship should be decided on the field, (more…)

(AP)”I’ve always hoped that the government would not have to get involved and that those with the power to reform the system would recognize the error of their ways,” said Hatch, who hails from Utah. “But, even after hearing the complaints of millions of college football fans, not to mention government officials, they are apparently unwilling to make any significant changes. That being case, I’m supportive of all reasonable efforts to ensure that students and schools are treated fairly and a national playoff system being advocated by Playoff PAC seems like a reasonable way to accomplish that goal.”

Incidentally, the University of Utah, a non-BCS school, went 13-0 in 2008, beating well-regarded teams like Oregon State, TCU, BYU and Alabama along the way. (more…)