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Almost two decades ago, the big guns fell silent in the war between Armenians and Azeris over a mountainous corner of Azerbaijan called Nagorno-Karabakh. Today, the 1994 ceasefire trench lines …
Scientists have long wondered why the surface temperatures on Mars rise and fall twice a day instead of once each as on Earth. The answer, according t ...
Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin has told the Israeli ambassador in Sofia, Shaul Kamisa-Raz, that Bulgaria’s position on the results of the investi ...
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has discovered what appears to be the lightest planet ever to be directly observed outside of our Solar System ...
A 2.7-kilometer-wide asteroid will pass within 5.8 million kilometers of Earth on Friday, May 31, and while it poses no threat to Earth, it will provide a chance to collect ...
As annual World No-Tobacco Day is marked on May 31 2013, with the World Health Organisation and European Union among those stepping up calls in the campaign against smoking, Bulgaria ...
The planets Jupiter, Venus and Mercury will be performing a shell game of sorts in the evening sky. On the night of May 28 2013, the three planets will line ...
Astronomers have gotten a rare glimpse of two distant and ancient galaxies merging. The galaxies, called HXMM01, are about 11 billion light years from Earth, meaning they offer a look ...
Journalists love superlatives, and Russia’s southernmost republic, Dagestan, obliges. Of Russia’s 83 regions, Dagestan last year recorded the highest level of political violence – 53 bombings and 405 dead. Last ...
British Prime Minister David Cameron says the brutal murder of a man in London Wednesday appears to be a terrorist attack.A man believed to be a serving British soldier was ...
