Russia detects two missile launches in Mediterranean

It was a test: http://www.euronews.com/2013/09/03/russia-says-ballistic-obj...

Sorry, but why is this on the front page of HN?

Let's say I can understand the NSA stories, since they're somewhat tech related, but this is just off-topic, IMHO.

Missile test by Israel and the US?

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=auto&tl=en&u=...

That was just a military exercise and a clear power demonstration.

But indeed we are very close to another war, and IMHO this time will not be a walk in the park with a possible Russian intervention on it. Remember, Kremlin always consider US a 'business partner' which can be easily turned into an enemy.

The first thing I noticed in this article is that the continents on AFP's visual seem warped. You can even see parts of Antarctica away from the empty south pole, and Siberia seems to occupy the north pole.

This is weird, they could just not have added meridians and parallels, and it would have been fine.

> The missiles fell into the Mediterranean Sea.

On another note, are the seas and oceans ever cleaned up from all this junk which falls into it? Is there any plan at all? Or, it's on the bottom and nobody can see it so we don't have to care about it.