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UN still to decide taking up probe into Benazir Bhutto’s killing

Washington, June 13 : After Pakistan made a formal request to probe Benazir Bhutto’s killing in December, UN officials are said to be analysing the UN procedures to conduct the probe.

Bush speech to hail US-European ties in Paris speech

Paris  - United States President George W Bush was expected to arrive in Paris later Friday to deliver a speech praising a new era in US-European ties, the Paris-based International Herald Tribune

NASA scientists find new type of comet dust mineral

NASA scientists find new type of comet dust mineralWashington, June 13 : NASA researchers and scientists from the United States, Germany and Japan have found a new mineral in material that likely came from a comet.

The mineral, a manganese silicide named “Brownleeite”, was discovered within an interplanetary dust particle, or IDP, that appears to have originated from comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup.

The comet originally was discovered in 1902 and reappears every 5 years.

The team that made the discovery is headed by Keiko Nakamura-Messenger, a space scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

British PM Gordon Brown says world needs 1,000 extra nuclear power stations

Spanish researchers unveil cloak of silence

Washington, June 13 : Being disturbed in the middle of the night by noisy neighbours’ blasting out music could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to researchers in Spain, who have shown that metam

Greenland Ice Sheet is melting faster than previously believed

Washington, June 13 : A new study has suggested that the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting faster than previously believed, and as a result, freshwater runoff from the area will more than double by th

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