The pioneering lander Philae completed its primary mission of exploring the comet's surface and returned plenty of data before depleted batteries forced it to go silent, the European Space Agency said Saturday.
A poultry farm in the central Dutch village of Hekendorp is being cleared and a local ban has been imposed on transporting poultry after the discovery of avian influenza, Dutch authorities said in a statement late on Saturday.
The graceful movement was enough to get the full attention of Adam Scott, who knows a good golf swing when he sees one.
POULTER STOPS SLIDE: Ian Poulter temporarily stopped a slide that had him pointed in a direction he has not been in nearly a decade.
South Korea went into hush mode on Thursday, as nearly 650,000 students took the annual college entrance exam that will play a large part in defining their adult lives in a highly competitive society.
Landing with a bounce after traveling 6.4 billion km, a European spacecraft made history on Wednesday by successfully reaching the icy, dusty surface of a speeding comet - a cosmic first designed to answer big questions about the universe.
Portraits by Andy Warhol of entertainment superstars Elvis Presley and Marlon Brando were among the highlights at a record-breaking auction of postwar and contemporary art.
Vast areas of land and sea have become environmental sanctuaries in recent years, but the world is not funding them adequately, the United Nations warned on Thursday.
Israeli authorities gave preliminary approval on Wednesday for 200 homes to be built in a Jewish area of East Jerusalem, a move that threatens to push Israelis and Palestinians deeper into conflict after weeks of unrest over the city's holiest sites.
Israel said on Wednesday that it will not cooperate with a United Nations Human Rights Council investigation into this year's Gaza conflict because its findings are "pre-determined".
Eggs, tinned food, reptiles and surfboards will be banned in parts of Brisbane this week as Australia's largest peacetime deployment of police and soldiers braces for everything from unruly protests to mass hostage-taking at the Group of 20 summit.
A doctor who carried out sterilization procedures on 13 women who later died in central India has been arrested.
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