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Nargis Yadav lies in the arms of her mother in a small rural clinic in north India - one of seven billionth babies born around the world on Monday.

Flood waters in Bangkok and across Thailand are finally receding, after months of what eventually became the worst flooding in the country in 50 years.

Beijing on Monday denied a U.S. commission's claim that China may have been responsible for hacking incidents on U.S. environment-monitoring satellites, saying that the committee had ulterior motives in writing such a draft report.

A court in Morocco has sentenced to death the man believed to be behind a deadly April bombing of a cafe in Marrakesh.

NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite soared into space Friday aboard a Delta II rocket after liftoff at 5:48 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California

Vancouver-based Argentex Mining Corp. said Friday that Argentina's new decree tax repatriation law will not affect the company in the near term.

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The world population is expected to reach 7 billion people on Oct. 31, 2011.

On Oct. 31, the world's population will reach seven billion. The seven billion milestone with projections of more growth, said Babatunde Ostimehin, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, is a challenge, an opportunity and a call to action. Global population will reach seven billion on Oct. 31, with another billion people projected on Earth by the year 2025. The world's population is projected to reach 10 billion by the end of this century.

The large ice masses in southwest China are also decreasing, coinciding with warming temperatures, according to research published Wednesday.

The Eurasian Development Bank, a state-run joint venture between six former Soviet republics, has agreed to lend about $100 million to a Kazakh gold miner to help boost output of the precious metal in the Central Asian country.

NASA has released a series of new satellite data visualizations that show tens of millions of fires detected worldwide from space since 2002.

Win a chance to go behind the scenes at Vandenberg Air Force Base and watch the launch of the NPP satellite, Oct. 27.

The enormous German Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT) is expected to strike Earth on Saturday, anywhere inside an area that stretches from North America to South America and their adjacent waters.

The satellite could fall pretty much anywhere between 53 degrees North and South latitudes, which contains much of the Earths land area.

NASA has released a set of visuals and video showing millions of fire detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, instruments onboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites.

A “strongly matching comet storm akin to what occurred in our solar system several billion years ago that may have brought water and life sources to Earth, has been discovered in an alien solar system.

Scientists calculated the size of hundred year old comet findings and found a near catastrophe.

Details on the defunct ROSAT satellite as it falls to Earth.

Kazakhstan, the second-largest ex-Soviet economy and oil producer after Russia, has enough reserves to weather a new wave of financial crisis and keep its currency stable, the National Bank governor told Reuters Insider TV.

Comet won't pass near Earth again for 12,000 years.