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A 25-year-old doctorate student in Chile has discovered a new planet which orbits a red star twice the size of the Sun, located 293 light years from Earth. Maritza Soto Vasquez, an Astronomy student at the University of Chile, said that she had happened upon the planet by coincidence, whilst studying the red star, known as “HD 110014”, which she knew already had one planet in its orbit known as “HD110014 b”. It was then […]
AUGUST 26 (Reuters) — A dead baby blue whale was found along the shores of French Basque country town Bidart on Monday evening (August 24). Local media reported that the approximately 12-metre long blue whale weighting some five to eight tonnes was found around 20.30 local time (1830 GMT). Firemen secured the area and brought the body of the animal on the beach, where it stayed for the night. Three diggers were necessary to move […]
South Korea is willing to discuss North Korea’s demand for an end to sanctions imposed over a 2010 naval attack, South Korean Unification Ministry said on Wednesday (August 26), a day after the rivals struck a landmark pact that defused a standoff between their forces. South Korea is preparing to open a new channel of dialogue with the North after the Tuesday (August 25) accord, in which North Korea expressed regret over a landmine incident […]
AUGUST 26 (Reuters) — A teenage suicide bomber detonated an explosive device strapped to her body in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu early on Tuesday (August 25), killing five people and wounding about 30, police said. No one claimed responsibility for the blast but Islamist militant group Boko Haram has been blamed for a series of similar attacks in the region in recent weeks. Officials at the state emergency management agency said the suicide […]
(Reuters) — Korean defense ministry said on Tuesday (August 25) both North and South Korea would begin rolling back heightened military postures at noon (0300 GMT), after the two Koreas reach reached agreement early on Tuesday to end a standoff involving an exchange of artillery fire. Under the accord reached in the very early hours of Tuesday after more than two days of talks, North Korea expressed regret over the recent wounding of South Korean […]
(Reuters) — French President Francois Hollande on Monday (August 24) awarded France’s highest honour, the Legion d’honneur, to three U.S. citizens and a Briton who helped disarm a machine gun-toting suspected Islamist militant on a train last week. The award came a day after it was revealed that one of the Americans, Spencer Stone, also appeared to have saved the life of a fellow passenger. The suspect’s lawyer said on Sunday the man named by […]
INDIANA, United States of America, August 25 (Eagle News) — A freshman student in the Indiana Small State University can’t express his happiness after receiving free tuition for a semester after successfully shooting the free throw shot from the half-court in a challenge that has been conducted by said university since 2013. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
AUGUST 25 (Reuters) — South Koreans on Tuesday (August 25) welcomed the news that the two Koreas reached an agreement on Tuesday (August 25) to end a standoff involving an exchange of artillery fire. Under the accord reached in the very early hours of Tuesday after more than two days of talks, North Korea expressed regret over the recent wounding of South Korean soldiers in landmine blasts and Seoul agreed to halt anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts, […]
AUGUST 25 (Reuters) — South Korean defense ministry said on Tuesday (August 25) both North and South Korea would begin rolling back heightened military postures at noon (0300 GMT), after the two Koreas reach reached agreement early on Tuesday to end a standoff involving an exchange of artillery fire. Under the accord reached in the very early hours of Tuesday after more than two days of talks, North Korea expressed regret over the recent wounding […]
Islamic State militants on Sunday (August 23) blew up the temple of Baal Shamin, one of the most important sites in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra, said Maamoun Abdul Karim, the country’s antiquities chief. The temple bombing would be the first time the insurgents, who control swathes of Syria and Iraq and captured Palmyra in May, damaged monumental Roman-era ruins. A week ago, the militants beheaded Khaled Asaad, an 82-year-old scholar who worked for more […]
(Courtesy CCTV) — Chinese and Russian naval soldiers, who are taking part in the nine-day Joint Sea-2015 (II) drill, gathered at designated waters on Sunday and started the joint training. Chinese and Russian vessels left Vladivostok on Sunday morning ahead of schedule for the relevant waters. The order of departure was given on Saturday night in accordance with the plan of the drill and weather condition. “The directing team gave the order at night, […]
(Reuters) — Thailand’s police chief Somyot Poompanmuang said on Monday (August 24) Bangkok bomber suspect might still be in the country, a week after a blast killed 20 people including foreigners. The blast last Monday at one of the capital’s most famous shrines, packed with Asian visitors, will inevitably dent the tourist industry, one of the economy’s few bright spots. Economic woes could undermine the military government as it steers the country towards an […]
