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UN immunity plea angers Haiti cholera victims
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UN immunity plea angers Haiti cholera victims
The families of around 8,000 Haitians who died of cholera have reacted angrily to a UN decision to reject their compensation claims. | Scientific studies suggest UN peacekeepers from Nepal b... (photo: UN / Rick Bajornas)
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This artist's conception illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star.
Kepler-37b   NASA   Photos   Washington   Wikipedia: Kepler-37b  
Smallest planet discovered
Washington, February 22: | Nasa has discovered the smallest known planet outside our solar system which is slightly larger than the moon and orbits its sun like host star every 13 days. | Nasa’s Kep... (photo: NASA / Ames/JPL-Caltech)
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In this photo provided by Chelyabinsk.ru a meteorite contrail is seen over Chelyabinsk on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. A meteor streaked across the sky of Russias Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and reportedly injuring around 100 people, including many hurt by broken glass. Russian meteor largest to hit earth in a century
THE meteor that hit Russia on Friday, measuring 17m in diameter is the biggest object to have hit the earth's atmosphere in more than 100 years, scientists say. | Scientists have found more than ... (photo: AP / Chelyabinsk.ru) The Daily Telegraph Australia
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Moon in the sky at early morning before sun rise - nature KMC’s mission to the moon
Sky High Ambition | Kirori Mal College’s students of Physics have added another feather to the cap of their college and alma mater and this time it is not the cultural or the theatre wing which ... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) Deccan Herald
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A circular hole in the ice of Chebarkul Lake where a meteor reportedly struck the lake near Chelyabinsk, about 1500 kilometers (930 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. Russian meteor blast injures at least 1,000 people, authorities say
February 16, 2013 -- Updated 0115 GMT (0915 HKT) | Did you see the meteor? Share your images with CNN iReport. | Moscow (CNN) -- A meteor streaked through the skies above... (photo: AP) CNN
Disaster   Photos   Russia   Space   Wikipedia: 2013 Russian meteor event  
In this photo provided by Chelyabinsk.ru a meteorite contrail is seen over Chelyabinsk on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. A meteor streaked across the sky of Russias Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and reportedly injuring around 100 people, including many hurt by broken glass. 400 injured by blasts as meteor falls in Russia
MOSCOW — A meteor streaked across the sky above Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and injuring more than 400 people, many of them hurt... (photo: AP / Chelyabinsk.ru) Tulsa World
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water falling from the top in the wild area - natural source of water in rainy days Alarming water loss in Middle East: NASA
An amount of freshwater almost the size of the Dead Sea has been lost in parts of the Middle East due to poor management, increased demands for groundwater and the effect... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) Khaleej Times
Nasa   Photos   Research   Water   Wikipedia: Water scarcity  
Activity lead Bobak Ferdowsi, center, wipes tears away after a successful landing inside the Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Sunday Aug. 5, 2012. NASA's Mohawk Guy Is Having The Time Of His Life At The White House
Bobak Ferdowsi, the man who rose to fame as the flight director of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity mission, is having a great time at the White House as First ... (photo: AP / Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times-POOL) Business Insider
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This undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a sow polar bear resting with her cubs on the pack ice in the Beaufort Sea in northern Alaska. An environmental group is pressing ahead with efforts to declare Alaska's polar bears threatened under the Endangered Species Act in an effort to get the Bush administration to focus on global warming. Big Oil Demands the Right to Kill Polar Bears
| The Marine Mammal Protection Act—which bars hunting, killing, capture, or harassment of any marine mammal, and the trade in their body parts, within the United States... (photo: AP / U.S. Fish and Wild Life Service, Steve Amstrup) CounterPunch
Environment   Marine   Oil   Photos   Wikipedia: Alaska  
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman attends the EU-Israel Council at the European Council building in Brussels Israel's Lieberman scoffs at Palestinian deal
| A close ally of Israel's prime minister has called peace with the Palestinians "impossible", saying the conflict between them and Israel can only be "managed". | Former... (photo: AP / Yves Logghe) Al Jazeera
Israel   Mideast   Peace   Photos   Wikipedia: Avigdor Lieberman  
The Curiosity rover is a nuclear-powered Mars rover that is part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission by the United States. The MSL spacecraftwith its payload Curiositywas launched on 26 November 2011 and successfully landed on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater on 6 August 2012 NASA Mars rover collects first Martian bedrock sample
| WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Curiosity rover has used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sampl... (photo: Creative Commons / Chaser) Xinhua
Nasa   Photos   Space   Washington   Wikipedia: Curiosity (rover)  
Indian Hindu Sadhu at Gangasagar Island, some 150 kms south of Kolkata, on the occasion of Makarsankranti festival in Kolkata on Sunday, 13 January 2013. Some three hundred thousand Hindu pilgrims gathered at the Gangasagar Mela (Fair) to take a dip in the Ocean at the confluence of the River Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, a holy day of the Hindu calendar considered to be of great religious significance in Hindu mythology, Eastern India India's Kumbh Mela readies for holiest day
| Tens of millions of Hindus were expected to plunge into India's sacred river Ganges to wash away their sins on the most auspicious day of the world's largest ... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick) Al Jazeera
Culture   India   Photos   Religion   Wikipedia: Kumbh Mela  
The robotic arm on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity delivered a sample of Martian soil to the rover's observation tray for the first time during the mission's 70th Martian day, or sol (Oct. 16, 2012). This image taken later that same sol by the rover's left Mast Camera shows how wind or vibration or both affected the sample after delivery, moving much of it off the tray to the left in this view. Mars rover drill collects rock sample
| A space-age jack of all trades, NASA's Curiosity rover recorded a first by using its drill to collect a sample from a Martian rock. | The rover sent images of the ... (photo: NASA) CNN
Nasa   Photos   Science   Space   Wikipedia: Curiosity (rover)  
The National Museum in New Delhi is the largest museum in India. It holds variety of articles ranging from pre-historic era to modern works of art. It is run by the Ministry of Culture, part of the Government of India. The museum is situated on the corner of Janpath and Maulana Azad Road. National Museum gets new director general
| New Delhi, February 09: | Venu V., joint secretary in the culture ministry, has taken over as director general of National Museum here, the government said Saturday. | ... (photo: Creative Commons / Miya.m) The Siasat Daily
Culture   Delhi   Museum   Photos   Tourism   Wikipedia: New Delhi  
Solar energy - solar power - solar superstorm 'Earth will have 15 minutes to protect electronics'
| WASHINGTON – Scientists around the globe are joining those in the United States in becoming alarmed at the possibility of a plasma cloud from a solar superstorm that ... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) WorldNetDaily
Earth   Photos   Scientists   Solar   Wikipedia: Solar storm  
Dinosaur eggs at Fossil exhibit in the Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology (), Kunming, Yunnan, China. New dinosaur study foils young Earth creationist preachings by Rep. Paul Broun
| Georgia Rep. Paul Broun, is a radical religious conservative from the Deep South. He maintained his seat in the House, because he ran for re-election unopposed, althoug... (photo: Public Domain / Daderot) The Examiner
Earth   Georgia   Photos   Science   Wikipedia: Dinosaur  
This image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows a simulation of asteroid 2012 DA14 approaching from the south as it passes through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013. Nasa announces forthcoming asteroid 'near miss'
Nasa said a 45-metre wide asteroid will pass 17,200 miles from the surface of the Earth next week, the closest fly-by for an object of that size the space agency has ever... (photo: AP / JPL-Caltech) The Daily Telegraph
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Activity lead Bobak Ferdowsi, center, wipes tears away after a successful landing inside the Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Sunday Aug. 5, 2012.
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In this photo provided by Chelyabinsk.ru a meteorite contrail is seen over Chelyabinsk on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. A meteor streaked across the sky of Russias Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and reportedly injuring around 100 people, including many hurt by broken glass.
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This artist's conception illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star.
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Updates on Comet PanSTARRS
Vote Now! Top Space News of the Week - Feb. 24, 2013
Suitcase-Size Satellite Launching Monday to Hunt Asteroids
Canadian asteroid-hunting satellite to launch Monday
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