‘Up’ maintains No. 1 box-office altitude with $44.2M; ‘Hangover’ takes second with $43.3M

October 13th, 2009 Army: Wilderness proposal threatens key trainingDENVER — Military officials say proposed wilderness designations for parts of the Colorado mountains could threaten the Army's only high-altitude training site for helicopter pilots. Col. Joel Best, senior aviation officer for the Colorado Army National Guard, said Tuesday the proposed "Hidden Gems" wilderness designations would put all of the training site's high-altitude landing zones off-limits.

August 30th, 2009 Swiss tightrope walker takes on German mountainBERLIN — A Swiss tightrope walker has staged a spectacular climb up a steep cable on the slopes of Germany's highest mountain. Freddy Nock scaled the 3,264-foot (995-meter)-long cable car line on the Zugspitze mountain Sunday, using only a balancing pole.

August 28th, 2009 Automakers see Aug. sales jump; hangover to comeNEW YORK — Automakers are partying, even though they know the hangover is coming.

June 15th, 2009 Lingering 'Hangover' leads box office with $32.8MLOS ANGELES — "The Hangover" is not going away any time soon. The bachelor-bash comedy remained No.

June 14th, 2009 'Hangover' hangs on as No. 1 movie with $33.4MLOS ANGELES — Hollywood is nursing another big hangover.

June 8th, 2009 'Hangover' takes No. 1 box-office spot over 'Up'LOS ANGELES — It turns out Hollywood's weekend hangover was bigger than expected.

May 20th, 2009 JAMMU - Registration for the annual pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave shrine in Jammu and Kashmir began Wednesday at over 100 counters across the country, officials said. The registration started at specials counters of Jammu and Kashmir Bank and also online.

May 18th, 2009 SHIMLA - The hills of Himachal Pradesh are feeling the heat of the summer. There has been a surge in the day temperature, the meteorological office said here Monday.

May 12th, 2009 SHIMLA - The Rohtang Pass, at an altitude of 13,050 feet in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district, has been re-opened for vehicular traffic, an official said Tuesday. The pass was temporarily closed to the traffic May 10 after snow.

May 10th, 2009 SHIMLA - The Rohtang Pass, at an altitude of 13,050 feet in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district, was temporarily closed for vehicular traffic due to heavy snow, officials said. The pass was opened to the traffic after four months' closure earlier this month.

May 8th, 2009 JAMMU - Global warming coupled with 'unplanned tourist activities' are threatening the existence of high altitude Himalayan wetlands, particularly those in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, says an environment expert. Ladakh has three main high altitude wetlands - Pangong Tso, Tso Moriri and Tokhar.

April 21st, 2009 British cricket teams play on Everest for recordKATMANDU, Nepal — Two teams of British cricketers played on the foot of Mount Everest Tuesday in an attempt to set a high-altitude record for field sports. The teams played the Twenty-20 cricket match on Tuesday at Gorakshep, located 16,940 feet (5,165 meters) above sea level on the southern side of world's highest mountain in Nepal.

April 2nd, 2009 GANGTOK - Pugmarks of a Royal Bengal Tiger have been found in the snow at an altitude of 10,000 feet in the Himalayas near Jelepla in eastern Sikkim after a gap of nearly 18 years, officials said. Officials called it a rare discovery, since tigers are usually found in the plains and almost never above 6,000 feet.

March 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Friday successfully tested an indigenous interceptor missile that destroyed an incoming 'enemy' ballistic missile at an altitude of 80 km, an official said. During the test, an 'enemy' missile which was a modified version of the Dhanush surface-to-surface missile was fired from a naval ship in the Bay of Bengal to simulate the terminal phase of the flight of a ballistic missile with a range of 1,500 km.

December 31st, 2008 PRAGUE - The Czech Republic assumed the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union (EU) Thursday, nearly two decades after communism collapsed in the central European country of 10 million. The country takes over at the EU's helm at a time when the continent is experiencing an economic crisis, as Israel fires rockets on the Gaza Strip and as Russia and Ukraine engage in a gas row.