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Americans on the ground aren't the only ones voting in the midterm elections. Three astronauts aboard the International Space Station are exercising their democratic right from 220 miles above the Earth.

The three are voting in elections in the Houston area in Galveston and Harris counties, SPACE.com reported.

County officials prepare the ballots, then Mission Control beams them into space.

Google has filed a suit against the United States government for only considering Microsoft solutions when looking at options to improve their messaging functionality, according to TechDirt. Google Apps was not on the government's table and the search giant is arguing that restricting the Request for Quotation (RFQ), a document asking companies to design a solution and quote a price, to Microsoft is "unduly restrictive of competition."

Earlier this year, Canadian spammer Adam Guerbuez lost a lawsuit in the US. Facebook alleged he spammed millions of accounts and in November 2008 he was ordered to pay $873 million. Guerbuez ignored the ruling and even mocked it publicly, referring to himself as the "$873 million man." 

In its court filings, Facebook said Guerbuez stole passwords through phishing attacks and used a botnet of hacked computers to access Facebook accounts without authorization, meaning he could be potentially subject to a criminal prosecution in addition to the civil judgment against him.

Texas Governor Rick Perry has given Mexico's president 48 hours to contact him with information on the ongoing efforts to find the body of an American man reportedly shot dead on a border lake.

Mr Perry said he hoped the body of David Hartley will be recovered by the time Felipe Calderón contacts him.

'If not, we're not looking hard enough,' he declared on Wednesday.Mr Hartley's wife Tiffany claims her husband was shot by Mexican pirates on Falcon Lake last week as they returned over the U.S. border on jet skis.

Missing: Texas Governor Rick Perry  has given Mexico 48 hours to come up with information on the efforts to find David Hartley (pictured with wife Tiffany)

Phone call: Mr Perry (right) said he hoped the body will have been found by the time Mexican president Felipe Calderón (left) called

The lake is a section of the Rio Grande which has been plagued by pirates in the past. Mr Hartley's death though would be the first killing on the waterway.The Mexico government said in a statement it had been in contact with the U.S. over the incident and had stepped up efforts to find Mr Hartley's body.

Mrs Hartley has said her husband was shot in the head by three men chasing them in speedboats and that he fell off his jet ski and into the lake.Yesterday the 29-year-old and members of her family laid a wreath in the lake in memory of Mr Hartley.

Memorial: Mrs Hartley and members of her family laid a wreath to the 30-year-old

 At a press conference afterwards, she said: 'It was very emotional because I know he's out there and we just all want him back so we can give him the proper goodbye.'

Mr Perry has called on Mexico to use every resource available to find Mr Hartley's body and return it to U.S. soil.

Earlier this week Mrs Hartley was forced to deny suggestions by the Mexican police that she may killed her husband.


Speaking on Good Morning America, she said: 'It's just hard to hear it. But I can see it from their point of view. I can understand why they might think that, but it's not true... I would never think about hurting my husband. I loved him.'

The Texas Governor has also now backed up her story, claiming the couple had been sightseeing in Mexico.

'I find it really reprehensible for anyone, U.S. or Mexican, to speak otherwise,' Mr Perry said.

A student has been left devastated after an elaborate sex list she created ranking university men she had slept with became an internet sensation.

Karen Owen made the 'unofficial senior thesis' on her sex life with athletes at Duke University in North Carolina and originally emailed it to three of her friends.But the project spread to the university's entire 14,000 student body and from there on to websites across the globe.

Viral sensation: Karen Owen, pictured left with a friend, created a PowerPoint 'thesis' rating 13 men she had slept with at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina

In the list, written in the form of a 42-slide PowerPoint presentation, Miss Owen rates 13 of the men she slept with - mainly from the university lacrosse team - out of 10 and created a bar graph charting their sexual prowess.

Italy is set to become the next European country to ban the burka after a government report ruled in favour of the proposed legislation.

MPs from the anti-immigration Northern League party, a member of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s ruling right wing coalition, have presented the proposal in a bill.It comes just weeks after France banned the wearing of burkas and other forms of face veils - a decision which prompted al Qaeda terrorists to vow revenge.

Ban: Italy could become the next European country to ban the burka after a government report ruled in favour of legislation to prohibit wearing it in public

An Interior Ministry report now being considered by the Constitutional Affairs Commission says that if introduced the law should make clear burkas and other face coverings were being banned not for 'religious reasons but for security reasons.'

Google's Street View service in Brazil has been been flooded with complaints after users were shown graphic images of dead bodies in the streets at several locations.

The website launched in Brazil last week but quickly attracted attention for the wrong reasons when television station Globo G1 broadcast Google-captured images of a corpse covered by a black plastic sheet and surrounded by blood spatters in a Rio de Janeiro street.

In the images, police cars surrounded the body in Belo Horizonte as officers form a cordon and push back members of the public who have gathered outside the street corner shops.

Dead body: A corpse lies in a Rio de Janeiro street covered by black plastic

But several websites and internet bloggers reported other similar images in Rio and further afield.

On Avenida Presidente Vargas, also in Rio, another image seems to show a body lying in the street that has not yet been found or attended by police.

The White House deliberately blocked estimates on the size of the potential environmental damage caused by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a report released yesterday declared.

The White House deliberately blocked estimates on the size of the potential environmental damage caused by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a report released yesterday declared.The investigation by the National Oil Spill Commission said U.S. President Barack Obama and his administration had been over-optimistic about BP's ability to deal with the huge spill and action could have been taken earlier to minimise the disaster.

Eleven people were killed when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, leading to the worst offshore oil leak in U.S. history with hundreds of miles of shoreline polluted.

Damaging: The White House has been accused of deliberately blocking estimates on the potential damage caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

The police investigation into Gary Coleman's death has finally been officially closed.The decision to shut down the investigation comes just weeks after the former child star's autopsy report was released.

In the autopsy report the coroner had ruled Coleman's death an 'accident'.

Rest in peace: The investigation into Gary Coleman's death has finally been officially closed - the pint sized star passed away on May 28

The Diff'rent Strokes star died May 28 after suffering a brain hemorrhage at his home in Santaquin outside of Salt Lake City, Utah.

He was discovered lying in a pool of blood by his ex-wife Shannon Price.

Working with police and security agencies around the world, the FBI  has cracked a major cyber-crime network, making tens of arrests in the US alone, as part of Operation Trident Breach. The cyber thieves targeted small and medium-sized companies, municipalities, churches, and individuals, infecting their computers using a version of the Zeus Botnet. The US Attorney General says those arrested in the US, who provided bank accounts for the criminals to deposit stolen money in, have been charged with conspiracy to commit bank-fraud and money laundering.

The suspected members worked as mules for fraudsters based in Eastern-Europe who stole around $70 million from companies and consumers in the US. The original goal was $220 million, but the criminals only managed to steal less than a third of that. They used the the malware's obtained usernames and passwords for bank account details.

The Operation Trident Breach investigation began in May 2009 when FBI agents noticed a string of suspicious bank transactions: automated clearing house batch payments were made to 46 separate bank accounts throughout the US. The large-scale organized cybercrime operation was active in several countries outside of the US, including the Netherlands, Ukraine, and the UK.

A boy racer had his £150,000 supercar impounded 24 hours after he bought it when he was caught speeding at 120mph.

The 20-year-old was street racing a BMW being driven by a friend aged just 21 when he was pulled over by police in Vancouver, Canada.The pair were stopped when officers spotted them zooming along a road popular among hikers, outdoor enthusiasts and families.

Caught out: The unnamed driver's Ferrari 430 Scuderia is hauled away by police after he was caught speeding

America faces global outrage after it apologised for deliberately infecting patients in a mental hospital with STDs in science experiments.
Government officials provided prostitutes to patients in the Guatamalen institute from 1946 to 1948 to to test if the relatively new drug penicillin could prevent them catching STDs.None of the tests proved successful and the details were hidden in medial archives for decades. But medical historian Susan Reverby from Wellesley College in Massachusetts unearthed the shocking details of the tests while researching archives in Pennsylvania.

Sorry: President Barack Obama apologised after it emerged that the U.S. deliberately infected mental patients with STDs

The former head of Nelson Mandela's charity fund has been charged with illegally keeping uncut diamonds given to him by supermodel Naomi Campbell.Jeremy Ractliffe admitted he had the gems only when Ms Campbell mentioned him at ex-Liberian leader Charles Taylor's war crimes trial in August.

Naomi Campbell gave the diamonds to Jeremy Ractliffe in 1997

The US government is to issue a travel alert, warning its citizens to be vigilant while travelling in Europe because of the threat of an al-Qaeda commando-style attack.US and UK officials have confirmed that updated guidance will be issued because of the current terror threat.

First, "Titanic" actress Gloria Stuart passed away on Sunday at the age of 100. Then Sally Menke, a film editor best known for her long association with director Quentin Tarantino and who edited "Reservoir Dogs," "Pulp Fiction," "Kill Bill" and "Inglourious Basterds," was found dead on Tuesday. She passed away during a hike and was only 56 years old.