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NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before. The unprecedented project, named Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch no later than 2018.

The head of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur today called for World Bank assistance to ensure that the 'dividends of peace are made evident' to promote a sustainable peace in the war-ravaged Sudanese region.

The number is increasing rapidly since its first reported case tentatively around August 19 of this year in Shahjadpur and adjoining upazilas of Sirajganj.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have agreed to meet again in Egypt Sept 14 -15 and at regular two-week intervals after that to continue peace talks.

The world cannot afford escalating disasters of the kind recently witnessed in Pakistan and Russia, the top United Nations climate change official said today, underscoring the need for governments to take swift action to lead the world towards a low

UNOCI spokesperson Hamadoun Touré said at a weekly news conference that the UN mission will closely follow the setting-up of polling stations and monitor data that was validated or rejected when reconciling information contained in the provisional

The United Nations is moving swiftly to vaccinate 1.5 million children after a polio case was detected in an area of north-eastern Afghanistan which had been free of the disease for more than a decade.

Today, we have successfully re-launched direct negotiations between the - among the United States, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority in pursuit of a final agreement, a final settlement and a just peace, two states living side by side. George Mit