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Today's "Rign of Fire Eclipse" (May 20) is known as an annular solar eclipse. Annular eclipses only occur when the moon is at a point in its orbit that is too far from Earth to completely block the sun. During today's solar eclipse, the moon will block up to 94 percent of the sun and last about 4 1/2 minutes inside a 300 kilometer wide...

And so ends the 2011-2012 UEFA competitions with Chelsea FC lifting the Champions League trophy after a magnificent win away at Bayern's Fussball Arena, Munich. After a monumental 120-minute game of football, it came down to penalties. Sadly, one team had to lose but Di Matteo, 41, gave Roman Abramovich the title he coveted.

Go on Greece! Show us how it's done! You gave us political democracy, now show us what economic democracy means. The choice is nuclear: the Drachma (translation: "handful") over the Euro ("empty hands"). After seeing what the European Union gave us, time for a radical, courageous change of policy. Who could argue otherwise? Here's how it's done.

NASA estimates that there are 4,700 asteroids potentially hazardous to Earth, according to data from the WISE probe, which scans the cosmos with infrared light. The agency noted that the observations of WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) allowed a better assessment of the population of potentially hazardous asteroids in our solar system.

In Chile, the system repeats the educational and social inequalities of income distribution. More than 100,000 Chilean students were mobilized to protest a broad education reform and tax. Young people marched through several streets of the capital and various regions, repeating the scenario that brought down the popularity of President.

Solomon Islanders have very dark skin. Most also have dark hair, but about one in ten of them have strikingly blond hair. How is this blond trait inherited, and do the people of the Solomon Islands inherit it the same way that other blond populations do? A fascinating study recently discovered the genetic basis behind blond Solomon Islanders

Straightjacket Eurozone rules trap 17 dissimilar countries. Greece proved most vulnerable. It's cratering under imposed austerity. It's the epicenter of Europe's deepening economic crisis. Fed up Greeks want change. May 6 parliamentary elections favored anti-austerity candidates

The Second International Festival "The Meeting of UNESCO Masterpieces on Olonkho Land" will take place in Yakutsk, the capital of the Republic of Yakutia, on July 10-16

The XII All-Russian conference of representatives of small and mid-sized companies "Small and medium-sized business: the prospects for development under conditions of Russia joining the WTO" will take place next week in Nizhny Novgorod

What helped to make the Trayvon Martin case a national, and international, news event were Online Petitions and Social Media sites that demanded an investigation into the police department's handling of the incident. But there are many other situations or incidents in America today that also cry out for fair and honest investigations

The opponents of the official ideology and religious dogma in Israel receive threatening letters. A person is entitled to their own point of view, even if it is contrary to the state ideology. However, the authorities have no less right to defend themselves against the allegations that undermine the foundations of statehood

Strategic submarine "Kursk" that sank in 2000 was sunk by the Americans. This theory discussed in Russia and abroad was once again raised by a Polish newspaper, referring to the information allegedly received from the Russian General Staff officer, "Lt. Col. Andrei." The restraint of the Russians made it possible to avoid a full-scale nuclear war

Sixty students of boarding schools from the Ivanovo region of Russia will start attending a special school for talented children during the new school year

Mikhail Men, the governor of the Ivanovo region of Russia, set forth an initiative to provide all large families in the region with plots of land free of charge

UN Women announces members of Global Civil Society Advisory Group - UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet today announced the members of her Global Civil Society Advisory Group that will facilitate regular consultations and dialogue between civil society and UN Women.

The Ratko Mladic trial at the farcical International Criminal Court - that travesty of justice and insult to international law which kidnaps people, illegally detains them and does not apply the principles of due process - has been interrupted indefinitely after the prosecution "forgot" to deliver thousands of pages of evidence to the defence.

The scientific research vessel Dayang Yihao started an oceanic expedition from China to sail from the city of Sanya on Hainan island province, for a mission of 370 days. Tao Chunhui, chief of staff of experts on board, said the work will focus on the study of polymetallic sulfides, biorrecursos and the environment, according to information coming from the aforementioned island.

The U.S. newspaper, The Washington Post, has revealed that the White House is the main coordinator of the supply of arms and ammunition to terrorist groups seeking to overthrow the Syrian government of Bashar al-Asad.

The police of South Korea investigate the reasons of a bizarre car accident, which occurred to the latest model of Hyundai Sonata

A surplus of mediators have been around all the time, including the heavy weight Quartet of the UN, U.S., EU and Russia, as well as heaps of terms of reference of UNSC resolutions, bilateral signed accords and "roadmaps," in addition to marathon bilateral talks that have left no stone unearthed, international as well as regional conferences were never on demand to facilitate the "peace process," which has been lavishly financed to keep moving