5 Intriguing Earth-Sized Planets

The announcement today of a newfound group of alien planets orbiting a distant star has added another candidate for the growing list of potential Earth-sized worlds beyond our own solar system.

New Planet System Found—May Have Hidden "Super Earth"

A newly discovered planetary system orbiting a sunlike star may conceal a rare super-Earth, according to data from NASA's Kepler space telescope.
Launched last March, Kepler was designed to look for extrasolar planets, aka exoplanets, via transits—the periodic dimming of light from stars due to planets passing in front them, as seen from the telescope's vantage point. (Read about Kepler's first planet discoveries.)

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Single Miley Cyrus: Hard at Work in Detroit

Kicking off another workday, Miley Cyrus was spotted on the set of “Laughing Out Loud” earlier today (August 26).
The “Hannah Montana” chick looked lovely as she filmed scenes on location in Detroit, Michigan, despite her recent breakup.

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Taylor Momsen's "Late Show" Appearance

Taking her rock and roll stylings to late night television, Taylor Momsen was spotted at “The Late Show with David Letterman” yesterday (August 25).
Joined by her band The Pretty Reckless, the “Gossip Girl” actress looked her usual punk chick self as she posed outside the Ed Sullivan Theatre.

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Liv Tyler's Lovely LOVE Shoot

Always a proper choice when it comes to cover girls, Liv Tyler is front and center in the Fall-Winter 2010 issue of UK's LOVE magazine.
The "Incredible Hulk" actress slipped in and out of an array of ensembles as LOVE's photographer crafted a collection of gorgeous shots.

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Carrie & Brad: CMA Awards Hosts…Again

For the past two years they’ve been working together to host the Country Music Association Awards, and Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley are going for the hat trick.
According to an event press release, the “Undo It” songstress and the “I’m Still A Guy” crooner are teaming up once again.

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Kate Gosselin: Enjoying Her "Privileged" Free Time

With all of her brood off at school, Kate Gosselin was spotted taking advantage of a little free time in Reading, Pennsylvania on Thursday (August 26).
The TLC reality star mom kept busy running errands in a sporty pink and black ensemble, as she stopped by her local consignment shop before picking up dry cleaning and doing some banking.

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They’re expecting a child together and Kelsey Grammer and Kayte Walsh were spotted shopping for a new apartment today (August 26) in New York City.
The “Frasier” actor and his British girlfriend were joined by a real estate agent as they made their way around the Big Apple.

Jeremy Renner: Marked for "Mission: Impossible 4"

His star just keeps rising, and now Jeremy Renner has been tapped to star in the forthcoming “Mission: Impossible 4.”
The “Hurt Locker” actor will join veteran action stud Tom Cruise in the new installment of the spy thriller series.

Selena Gomez's "A Year Without Rain" Excitement

She’s already gearing up for the release of her new album A Year Without Rain and Selena Gomez can’t wait until the official release date of September 21st.
The “Wizards of Waverly Place” actress announced that her new video for “A Year Without Rain” will debut on the Disney Channel next Friday, September 3rd, the same day that “Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam” hits the airwaves.

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Sri Lanka bourse flat; banks offset month-end selling

Czech man fined for collecting rare insects in Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan Major General Appointed to Permanent Mission to UN

Sri Lanka has reiterated a call to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to lay down arms

The Sri Lankan government has appointed the director of operations of the Sri Lanka Army Maj. Gen. Shavendra Silva as the country’s new deputy permanent representative to the United Nations.

Tamils can call Sri Lanka

India Vs SriLanka Tri Series Final Match On Saturday

India and Sri Lanka will play the final of the Tri-Series on Saturday in Dambulla International Stadium Rangiri Dambulla, Sri Lanka. India has an advantage in the final to come after the victory against New Zealand.

India to normalise defence ties with Sri Lanka

Saudi couple 'hammered 24 nails into maid's body'

Foreign tourist arrivals in Spain increased by 4.5% in July, the largest increase in 26 months

Travel News - Orlando Sanford - Airflights.co.uk launches holidays to the USA

Top online travel agency Airflights.co.uk has recently launched its offering of Special offers on Atol protected holidays and city breaks to the USA.
The agency whose main travel routes are cheap flights and holidays to The Canaries, Egypt and the Mediterranean has teamed up with a specialist US tour operator to offer quality holidays and city breaks to the USA. ....

New Olive Oil Production in the Canaries

By Daniel Williams
Olive Oil Times Contributor | Reporting from Barcelona
The General Director of Agriculture for the Government of the Canary Islands, Mr. Domingo Bueno, recently visited experimental olive groves that were part of a pilot project initiated in 2005 aimed at the eventual production of olive oil in the islands. The olive plantations belong to the Cumbres de Abona....

Dutch teen sails for Canary Islands on world trip

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Two dead in police pursuit crash in Christchurch

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A police photographer at the scene of the car crash in central Christchurch. Photo / Simon Baker

Two people are dead after a car smash involving a car being chased by police.
A third person suffered injuries after the crash on one of
Christchurch's most notorious street-racing roads.
Paramedics were called to the intersection of Fitzgerald Ave and
Gloucester St just after 8pm.

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Mongrel Mob members face charges for alleged pack rape, New Zealand

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MORE THREATS TO GULF OF MEXICO

Leaking oil isn't the only threat to the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding   
coastal communities. Rising sea levels also pose dangers to wetlands   
and habitats of commercially important fish and wildlife, according to   
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 
 
A new research project led by Scott Hagen of the University of Central   
Florida will develop computer models to predict sea level rises and the   
impacts of storms along the Gulf Coast. The study area will range from   
Mississippi to the Florida panhandle, a stretch chosen for its   
relatively pristine ecosystems and existing monitoring infrastructure,   
making it an ideal "sentinel site" for climate change impacts. 
 
The study will produce models that can help ecosystem and natural   
resource managers in their planning for potential sea level rises. The   
model may also help oil spill responders understand the long-term   
effects of the oil on the Gulf's ecosystems.  
SOURCE: NOAA   
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100805_sealevel.html  

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Liverpool without Gerrard and Torres for return leg at Trabzonspor

 

Steven Gerrard will miss Liverpool's Europa League second-leg in Turkey. Photograph: Richard Sellers/Sportsphoto/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar
Liverpool will be without Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres for their Europa League play-off second-leg tie against Trabzonspor in Turkey tomorrow, which they lead 1-0 from the first leg.....

Milan to continue talks with Barcelona over Zlatan Ibrahimovic transfer

Zlatan Ibrahimovic says he has not spoken to Pep Guardiola for six months. Photograph: Josep Lago/AFP/Getty Images
Milan's attempts to take Zlatan Ibrahimovic back to Serie A will continue today as they hold further talks with Barcelona.
The Milan vice-president, Adriano Galliani, and other Rossoneri representatives are already in Catalonia following the 1-1 ....

Peter Crouch says Tottenham want to face Real Madrid and Internazionale

Peter Crouch, left, stole the headlines with his hat-trick but Gareth Bale, right, set up all four Tottenham goals and was given an ovation when he was substituted late on. Photograph: Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images
Peter Crouch said he wanted to take on Europe's glamour clubs after his hat-trick helped Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham Hotspur 4-0 Young Boys | Champions League

Peter Crouch celebrates his second goal with Spurs team-mates Gareth Bale and Benoît Assou-Ekotto. Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty
A whiff of dullness is proof that a side has attained maturity. Tottenham Hotspur ambled into the Champions League proper and looked as if they belong among the type of clubs who consider this tournament their natural habitat. Young Boys, ....

Usain Bolt signs biggest athletics sponsorship deal ever with Puma

Puma believes Usain Bolt’s ability to connect with fans will help him become as famous as David Beckham. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images
Usain Bolt has signed the biggest sponsorship deal in athletics history, extending his contract with Puma to 2013 and catapulting the triple world record holder into the kind of financial terrain usually reserved for star footballers. ...

MK Dons 4-3 Blackpool | Carling Cup match report

MK Dons' assistant manager John Gorman congratulates winning goal scorer Lewis Guy at the end of the match. Photograph: Tony Marshall/EMPICS Sport
Eleven days ago Blackpool were top of the Premier League – albeit only for a couple of hours – after their 4-0 demolition of Wigan Athletic. This morning they find themselves out of the Carling Cup after an extra-time defeat to League One opposition in the .....

Ken Mehlman, senior Republican party figure, reveals he is gay news | guardian.co.uk

Ken Mehlman, a mastermind behind George Bush's 2004 election campaign success (above), has revealed he is gay. Photograph: Mark Wilson/EPA
After heading a Republican party that was openly hostile to the civil rights of gay and lesbian Americans, the former Republican party chairman and Bush aide Ken Mehlman has stepped out of the closet.

Asil Nadir returns to Britain

From a rock to a hard place. Asil Nadir, pictured in Northern Cyprus in 1993, is heading back to Britain to face fraud charges
10.40am: Sean O'Neill, the Times crime editor, is aboard Nadir's plane and has been tweeting on the @TimesCrime account (although he's gone quiet since the plane left Turkey - maybe there's no in-flight ....

Tax clouds gather over Greek high earners

Growing storm: the crowded Alimos marina near Athens is the focus of authorities’ probe into ‘lifestyle’ tax evasion
“For sale” signs have appeared on a handful of gleaming Italian-made power boats and luxury motor-yachts after a team from SDOE, Greece’s financial police, visited the crowded Alimos marina near Athens.

Nigeria warns of nation-wide cholera threat

Health authorities in Nigeria are warning that the entire country is threatened by a cholera outbreak.
At least 352 people have been killed by the infection in the space of three months, and more than 6,400 cases have been reported.
Doctors are now monitoring outbreaks in 12 of Nigeria's 36 states.
The health ministry blames the spread of the disease on...

Chile's trapped miners told rescue could take months

The 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground have been told they may not be rescued for several months, the country's health minister has said.
Jaime Manalich said the miners, trapped 700m below ground since 5 August, had reacted calmly, AFP news agency said.
Officials had delayed breaking the news out of concern for their mental well-being.

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European royals attend Greek island wedding

Prince Nikolaos, the second son of former King Constantine of Greece, married a fashion events planner on Wednesday in a ceremony on a southern Greek island attended by royals from across Europe.
The prince's wedding to Tatiana Blatnik was held in a monastery near the old port of Stepses island. Blatnik, 29, arrived in a horse-drawn carriage and waved to a crowd of well wishers gathered outside. The 40-year-old Nikolaos arrived by boat.

Susan Boyle To Sing For The Pope During UK Tour

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26 August 2010: It was exactly hundred years ago that one of the great servants of humanity, Blessed Mother Teresa was born in a foreign land and later joining a religious order came to India and eventually became an Indian citizen. Witnessing the miserable condition of the poor, sick, destitute  and neglected and lonely, Mother Teresa found her second calling in helping and caring for  these unfortunate people.
Mother Teresa, by her unconditional service to the destitute and dying earned the epithet as the ‘Saint of the Gutters’ and following her death in September 1997, was beatified by Pope John Paul II as ‘Blessed Mother Teresa’ in 2003. On the occasion of the centenary of her birth, it would be appropriate to review briefly her life and work that has inspired a large number of people all over the world.

Spetses: an island setting for the Greek royal wedding

European and Hollywood royalty gather for Prince Nikolaos wedding in Greece

Royals from all over Europe and Hollywood royalty will descend on the small Greek island of Spetses today for the wedding of Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Diane von Furstenbergevents planner Tatiana Blatnik.Guests expected include Queen Margrethe of Denmark, her son, Prince Joachim and wife Princess Marie, Swedish newlyweds Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel, Queen Sofia of Spain and actress Kiera Chaplin, granddaughter of the film legend. Tatiana is the stepsister of Chaplin's boyfriend of three years, Venezuelan financier Atillio Brillembourg, who'll be best man. Also expected are Greek shipping heirs Stavros and Eugenie Niarchos. Prince Nikolaos, son of Greece's former King Constantine and Queen Anne-Marie, lives with Blatnik in London. A rep for Chaplin confirmed she'd be at the wedding, wearing Dior.

The Royal Wedding of Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Tatiana Blatnik

 
Nikolaos and Tatiana: On the royal yacht, Afroessa
The couple, who reside in London, are already floating around on their yacht in the waters between the mainland coast and Spetses. Often seen on the Dapia for an early morning coffee or browsing round the local shops, they are just a week off their big day. They are in good company, as also spotted walking along the Spetses seafront this week was Leonardo DiCaprio! He too was not actually staying on the island, but stepping ashore from a yacht with supermodel girlfriend, Bar Refaeli,

Tottenham v Young Boys: Harry Redknapp calls for urgency in Champions League play-off

“I wouldn't say we have to be patient, we've got to get after them,” Redknapp said.

Tottenham trail 3-2 from the first leg and Redknapp added: “It's important to get after them early, to set them back. We have to move the ball, play with pace, press them, put them under pressure.”

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NASA - Pulverized Planet Dust May Lie Around Double Stars

PASADENA, Calif. -- Tight double-star systems might not be the best places for life to spring up, according to a new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The infrared observatory spotted a surprisingly large amount of dust around three mature, close-orbiting star pairs. Where did the dust come from? Astronomers say it might be the aftermath of tremendous planetary collisions.

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NASA Gears Up for Big Asteroid Encounter

NASA Gears Up for Big Asteroid Encounter
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Vast solar system found 127 light years away

 

An artist's impression of the HD 10180 planetary system in the southern constellation of Hydrus 127 light years away
The planetary system is believed to be the largest ever detected beyond the sun. Astronomers have confirmed the presence of five planets and have tantalising evidence of two more.