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• Amid melting Arctic ice, Kerry sees looming climate catastrophe

  18-06-2016 18:52
  By Lesley Wroughton ABOARD THE HDMS THETIS, Greenland (Reuters) - Standing near Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier, the reputed source of the iceberg that sank the Titanic over a century ago, U.S Secretary of State John Kerry saw evidence of another looming catastrophe. Briefed by researchers aboard a Royal Danish Navy patrol ship, Kerry appeared stunned by how fast the ice sheets are melting. "This has been a significant eye-opener for me and I've spent 25 years or more engaged in this issue," Kerr
  
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• UK astronaut Tim Peake returns to Earth

  18-06-2016 17:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UK astronaut Tim Peake is safely back on Earth after a historic mission to the International Space Station.
  
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• 3 International Space Station astronauts land in Kazakhstan

  18-06-2016 14:30
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — An International Space Station crew including an American, a Briton and a Russian landed safely Saturday in the sun-drenched steppes of Kazakhstan.
  
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• Peake Back On Earth: 'Best Ride I've Been On'

  18-06-2016 13:56
  
  British astronaut Tim Peake is back on Earth after what he called "the best ride" he's ever been on - but it was not an easy landing. He and crewmates American Tim Kopra and Russian Yuri Malenchenko touched down in Kazakhstan after returning from the International Space Station in a Soyuz capsule. The trio, who have completed a six-month mission on the ISS, were pulled out one-by-one from the capsule and placed in comfortable seats.
  
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• Watch SpaceX Nearly Pull Off Its 4th Straight Rocket Landing at Sea (Video)

  18-06-2016 13:03
  
  A new video shows just how close SpaceX came to acing its fourth consecutive rocket landing at sea this week. "Looks like early liquid-oxygen depletion caused engine shutdown just above the deck," SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said via Twitter Thursday (June 16) in a post describing the video, which he also posted to the social networking site. "Turns out the landing was not as fast [as] we thought, but still hard enough to destroy the primary airframe and accordion the engines," Musk added i
  
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• Tim Peake is looking forward to 'rain, pizza and cold beer' after a triumphant return to home planet

  18-06-2016 12:56
  
  The British astronaut just wants to experience normal earthly stuff after being away for six months.
  
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• Three astronauts touch down after 6 months in space

  18-06-2016 12:55
  
  Three astronauts including Briton Tim Peake landed back on Earth Saturday after completing a six-month mission on the International Space Station (ISS).
  
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• 'The best ride I've been on ever': The first words Tim Peake said after landing on Earth

  18-06-2016 12:50
  
  The British astronaut spent six months in space.
  
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• Capsule carrying space station crew lands in Kazakhstan

  18-06-2016 12:36
  
  ZHEZKAZGAN, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - A Soyuz capsule carrying a Russian, an American and a Briton from the International Space Station made a safe parachute landing on the steppe near the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan on Saturday.
  
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• Soyuz From Space Station Lands Safely with Brit, Russian and American

  18-06-2016 12:19
  
  Met by Russian recovery forces on the cloud-covered steppe, Peake, Malenchenko and Kopra were helped out of their spacecraft and, as is tradition, placed into chairs to begin their readjustment to gravity. The crew began their trip home earlier on Saturday at 1:52 a.m. EDT (0552 GMT) with the undocking of Soyuz TMA-18M from the station's Rassvet mini-research module.
  
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• Yemen's warring sides swap 194 prisoners in Taiz

  18-06-2016 11:31
  Houthi and pro-government forces exchanged nearly 200 prisoners in Taiz in central Yemen on Saturday, the largest such swap to take place in the embattled city since the beginning of a civil war last year, local sources said. The exchange of 118 Houthis and 76 pro-government fighters, will raise hopes that a ceasefire declared in April may be taking hold in Yemen's third largest city after repeated violations by both sides. Islamic State militants appear to be behind a rapid uptick in suicide at
  
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• Capsule carrying space station crew lands in Kazakhstan: NASA TV

  18-06-2016 11:27
  
  (Reuters) - A Soyuz capsule carrying a Russian, an American and a Briton from the International Space Station made a parachute landing on the steppe near the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan on Saturday, NASA television reported.
  
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• Spat between Liberals and Tories over Google reveals confusion about how search works

  18-06-2016 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Reports that the Liberal government asked Google to remove search results leading to some previous pages from Stephen Harper's time as prime minister sparked outrage from the Conservative Opposition and broader questions about internet content control.
  
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• Liberal request for Google to adjust search results was routine. Here's why

  18-06-2016 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Reports that the Liberal government asked Google to remove search results leading to some previous pages from Stephen Harper's time as prime minister sparked outrage from the Conservative Opposition and broader questions about internet content control.
  
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• Deluge of studies leaves coffee lovers dizzy

  18-06-2016 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Keeping up with all the studies on the possible risks and benefits of coffee might require one to, well, drink lots of coffee. And a new study provides little guidance for those still unsure about health issues associated with the beverage.
  
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• 'Deorbit burn' is complete as Tim Peake is on track to re-enter Earth's atmospehere

  18-06-2016 10:49
  
  Peake will face a scorching rollercoaster ride before hitting the ground in Kazakhstan.
  
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• 'See you back on Earth!': Tim Peake's final tweets from space

  18-06-2016 10:24
  
  The British astronaut spent 186 days aboard the ISS.
  
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• Final handshakes in space station

  18-06-2016 10:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  British astronaut Tim Peake has boarded the spacecraft that will return him to Earth following an historic six-month mission to the space station.
  
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• American, Briton, Russian depart from space station

  18-06-2016 10:02
  MOSCOW (AP) — The Soyuz space capsule has undocked from the International Space Station to carry an American, a Briton and a Russian back to Earth.
  
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• Tim Peake leaves the ISS for his journey back to Earth after six months in space

  18-06-2016 09:38
  
  Peake and his two crew mates undocked from the ISS at 6.52am BST.
  
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• Tim Peake Begins 'Ballistic' Descent To Earth

  18-06-2016 08:18
  Tim Peake has ended his historic mission aboard the International Space Station by scrambling into a Soyuz capsule with two other crewmates to complete his trip back to Earth. Closing the hatch between the station and the spacecraft at precisely 3.34am marked the official end of ISS Expedition 47 and Major Peake's Principia mission. Shortly afterwards, the capsule undocked from from the ISS and began the journey back to Earth, a trip that will take just a few hours.
  
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• Tim Peake Set For 'Ballistic' Descent To Earth

  18-06-2016 06:32
  
  Tim Peake has ended his historic mission aboard the International Space Station by scrambling into a Soyuz capsule with two other crewmates to complete his trip back to Earth. Closing the hatch between the station and the spacecraft at precisely 3.34am marked the official end of ISS Expedition 47 and Major Peake's Principia mission. The operation to airlift Peake and his crewmates from their Kazakhstan landing zone has been planned with military precision.
  
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• Floods in southern China kill 25, displace over 33,000

  18-06-2016 06:16
  
  BEIJING (AP) — A week of torrential rain in southern China has killed 25 people and displaced 33,200 residents, including many in China's poor, remote regions, officials said.
  
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• A multi-type queuing network analysis method for controlling server number in the outpatient

  18-06-2016 06:00
  
  (Bentham Science Publishers) High outpatient rates in healthcare in China besides a lack of healthcare resources has resulted in long queues, leading to excessive delays in addressing the patients treatment.
  
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• Report finds Grand Canyon bison are native to region

  18-06-2016 01:46
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The effort to come up with a way to manage bison at Grand Canyon National Park has taken a turn back in time — thousands of years — to determine the massive animals' roots.
  
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• Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Will Webcast Rocket Launch Live On Sunday

  18-06-2016 00:17
  
  The commercial spaceflight company Blue Origin will attempt to launch a New Shepard vehicle for the fourth consecutive time this Sunday (June 19), and the event will be webcast live, a first for the typically secretive company. The reusable New Shepard suborbital vehicle is scheduled to lift off at about 10:15 a.m. EDT (1415 GMT) from the company's testing range in west Texas, according to a statement from Jeff Bezos, the company's founder and CEO. The webcast of the launch will begin at 9:45 a.
  
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• British Astronaut Tim Peake Returns to Earth Early Saturday: Watch It Live

  18-06-2016 00:17
  
  Tim Peake, the first British European Space Agency astronaut to visit the International Space Station, will return to Earth tomorrow (June 18) along with American astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko.
  
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