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Kepler has already confirmed more than 1,000 exoplanets and 3,000 planet candidates using something called the transit method.

The United Nations Security Council endorsed a deal to curb Iran's nuclear program in return for sanctions relief.

But officials said it might have been a suicide bomb, and some commentators said it could have been the work of Islamist State (IS) terrorists.

President Xi Jinping has reassured local governments that China's economy still enjoys a promising outlook despite downward growth pressure pegging it around seven per cent.

Aziz also said that he did not not want to "vitiate the atmosphere" by commenting on India's strong reaction to the firing incidents at the border.

A US official said shots were fired at a Navy reserve center and a military recruitment center in Chattanooga.

India and Pakistan exchanged gunfire and mortar bombs along the Line of Control (LoC) on Thursday, killing five civilians and injuring more than a dozen.

President Barack Obama insisted that the landmark agreement was the only alternative to a nuclear arms race and more war in the Middle East.

China on Wednesday pledged to provide USD 10 million to all-weather friend Pakistan for the rehabilitation of people displaced due to military operations in the restive tribal region.

Greece geared up for a parliamentary vote on draconian reforms demanded by eurozone creditors in exchange for a huge new bailout, in what could be Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's toughest political test yet.

It turns out," Biden said his "great, great, great, great, great grandfather," by the name of George Biden was Captain in East India Trading company.

The dialogue aims to give the two countries a new platform to build on past results and work towards future progress.

With Iran and world powers close to a nuclear deal, Israel's prime minister has launched a Twitter account in Farsi.

A Cameroon military spokesman says two explosions went off at a bar in a northern town.

A 30-year-old woman in the UK has changed her name to her Facebook pseudonym Jemmaroid Von Laalaa in a desperate bid to log into her locked profile.

Malala Yousafzai told world leaders they were failing Syria's children, as the Nobel Peace Prize winner spent her 18th birthday today on the Syrian border.