Smash

I light of the recent events in space a program that is meant to find way to deflect/destroy incoming asteroids has picked a target to test on.

"The joint European/U.S. Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission, or AIDA, will work to intercept Didymos in 2022, when the space rock is about 6.8 million miles (11 million kilometers) from Earth, European Space Agency officials announced Friday (Feb. 22)."

However Didymos is not a single asteroid it is two.  They will be hitting the smaller of the two with one satilite while they are recording the information with another. They are doing this in hope of learning how to prevent large asteroids from hitting earth.

Information taken form 
http://news.yahoo.com/asteroid-smashing-mission-picks-space-rock-target-053602953.html

Pope to step down

Pope Benedict has decided to step down form the Papacy after his nearly 80 year long hold on the office.

"VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict stunned the Roman Catholic Church including his closest advisers on Monday when he announced he would stand down in the first papal abdication in 700 years, saying he no longer had the mental and physical strength to run the Church through a period of major crisis."

information taken from
http://news.yahoo.com/pope-resigns-saying-no-longer-strength-fulfill-ministry-112923467.html