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Using the Hubble Space Telescope, University of Michigan research fellow Alyson Ford and astronomy professor Joel Bregman proved that old elliptical galaxies, which were considered "dead," are still making new stars. The scientists saw individual young stars and star clusters in four galaxies that are about 40 million light-years away. One light-year is about 5.9 trillion miles.
The Radio Monte Carlo Grand Prix horse race was recently held at Moscow's Central Racecourse. Such events traditionally give the ladies a chance to show off their latest trendy hats.
On May 26 riot police in Athens clashed with protesting doctors and state hospital staff who tried to force their way into the Health Ministry. Police used pepper spray to disperse the protesters. No injuries or arrests were reported. Medics protested against cuts in wages, pensions and health care spending.
Grimsvotn Volcano in Iceland's most active Vatnajokull glacier started to erupt on May 21. The ash plume has reached the height of 20,000 meters. Icelandic volcanologists earlier predicted that the eruption would not cause a major air traffic collapse similar to the one that occurred during the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull Volcano in southern Iceland last spring. However, a total of 500 flights have already been canceled in Europe, most of them in northern England and Scotland.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton had an embarrassing moment while delivering a public speech in Montenegro. He mixed up Montenegro with Macedonia and called on the Balkan countries to “get integrated into Europe.”
A competition between Russian customs service’s canine units began in the city of Dmitrov near Moscow on May 17. A total of 52 participants took part in the event.
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh declined to try a sample of Guinness during their tour of a brewery at St James's Gate in Dublin.
The United States will continue efforts to make cyberspace safer, but will also keep on fostering the openness and accessibility of the global network, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at the rollout of the first-ever White House International Strategy for Cyberspace.
On June 14, 1985, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, West Germany and France signed the historic Schengen Agreement near the town of Schengen in Luxembourg.
Microsoft Corp has agreed the acquisition of Internet telephone company Skype for $8.5 billion in cash from an investor group led by Silver Lake private investment fund, its biggest deal ever, Microsoft said in a statement on Tuesday.
The first president of the United States was a man of many trades - and in between beating the English and being the founding father of American democracy, George Washington brewed his own beer.
Fuel shortages began in Russia, the world's largest oil producer, in late April, when most filling stations not belonging to major oil companies ceased trading because of a lack of fuel in the Altai region in southern Siberia. The deficit later spread further to the Siberian cities of Tomsk, Irkutsk and Novosibirsk, where filling stations are either closed or sell limited amounts of gasoline.
Prince William and Kate Middleton, who married on Friday, have been made Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Buckingham Palace announced.
The former California governor is starring in a rights package which will bring the Terminator back to cinemas.
Millions of Egyptians celebrated on Monday the traditional spring festival of Sham an-Naseem, which is held on the day following the Coptic Easter to mark the beginning of spring. The festival, whose name literally means "Smelling the Breeze," dates back to the times of pharaohs.
In April 2011, experts revealed an undocumented function of a regular recording made by an iPhone smartphone and iPad 3G tablet of information on the geographical location of the device in a hidden file.
Expletives may work as a painkiller, according to British scientists, The Daily Mail reported.
A Chinese writer is planning to spend $153,000 on plastic surgery to look like British playwright William Shakespeare, Shanghai Daily reported on its website on Thursday.
Bloggers and journalists writing about ecology have come from all over the world to take part in an eco-forum in the Russian capital Moscow.