Keanu Reeves wants to become a chef.

The 'Private Lives of Pippa Lee' actor has been honing his skills in the kitchen and is considering taking a break from his movie career to focus on food.

An Ariane 5 rocket Wednesday afternoon put into orbit a commercial telecommunications satellite touted as being the world's biggest.

The TerreStar 1, weighing about 15,000 pounds, was the only cargo aboard the rocket that is capable of carrying double payloads.

A 12-year-old girl who miraculously survived a plane crash off the coast of Comoros Islands is well and talked to her father and uncle Wednesday from a hospital bed in Moroni.

Paris-based Kassim Bakari, father of the survivor named Baya, quoted her daughter as telling him by phone that she was thrown into the waters when the Yemenia plane crashed into the Indian Ocean while trying to land at an airport in Comoros' largest island of Njazidja.

A man from New York will attempt for the third time to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Cape Verde in western Africa to the New York harbor in the U.S. in December to raise awareness on AIDS.

Victor Mooney, 43, of Forest Hills will use the boat Never Give Up donated by French adventurer Charlie Girard in rowing from San Antao to the Brooklyn Bridge on December 1 or World AIDS Day.

French researchers studying the solar system's future using computer simulation saw a potential disruption of Mercury's orbit that may lead to a collision between Earth and Venus billions of years from now.

The result of the study by Jacques Laskar and Mickael Gastineau of the Paris Observatory is published in the Thursday issue of the journal Nature.