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The sun and moon aligned over the earth in a rare astronomical event on Sunday - an annular eclipse that dimmed the skies over parts of Asia and North America, briefly turning the sun into a blazing ring of fire. - IBNLive - 7 Reads

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in his meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Chicago, has called for addressing the issue of trust deficit between the two nations. - IBNLive - 8 Reads

Satellite imagery shows North Korea is upgrading its old launch site in the secretive country's northeast to handle larger rockets, like space launch vehicles and intercontinental missiles, a US institute claimed on Tuesday. - IBNLive - 7 Reads

LONDON (Reuters) - Robot "fish" developed by European scientists to improve pollution monitoring moved from the lab to the sea in a test at the northern Spanish port of Gijon on Tuesday. - Reuters - 8 Reads

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration arranged for two Hollywood filmmakers to get special access to government officials involved in the commando operation that killed Osama bin Laden, according to a conservative legal group that posted internal government documents on its website Tuesday. - Reuters - 7 Reads

BEIJING (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will head to China in June for a regional security meeting, where he will discuss his country's nuclear programme with Chinese President Hu Jintao, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Wednesday. - Reuters - 8 Reads

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European leaders will explore ways of breathing life into their stricken economies at a summit on Wednesday, but the issue of euro-zone bonds and whether they can help alleviate two years of debt turmoil will dominate the meeting. - Reuters - 7 Reads

In a space mission straight from the movie "Armageddon", astronauts are being trained to land on an asteroid, explore it for minerals and even destroy the object if it threatens the Earth. - IBNLive - 2 Reads

Pakistan is preparing to open the crucial NATO supply route to Afghanistan, a top US commander based in Afghanistan has said, noting that there were signs of improvement in bilateral ties. - IBNLive - 5 Reads

A 73-year-old Japanese woman on Saturday broke her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, a media report said. - IBNLive - 7 Reads