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Researchers from Japan have discovered vast quantities of rare earth deposits on the floor of the Pacific Ocean that might challenge the dominance of China as world's leading provider.

Vast deposits of rare earth minerals, crucial in making high-tech electronics products, have been found on the floor of the Pacific Ocean and can be readily extracted, Japanese scientists said on Monday.

Britain has pledged to offer £38-million ($61-million) to Ethiopia in order to feed more than one million people who have been devastated by a severe drought.

The year 2011 was envisioned by many futurologists in the last 100 years to be full of jumpsuits, electronic cars and mobile satellite phones. While some of them came true, many others were not even past their successful trials.

On Fourth of July, 2011, as United States commemorates the adoption of Declaration of Independence, Earth reaches a point called Aphelion on its orbit and will be farthest from Sun than on any other day in 2011.

NASA has planned about 14 DISCOVER-AQ flights through July for a mission to enhance the capability of satellites to measure ground-level air quality from space.

Beaches in America saw the second-highest number of closing and advisory days in 2010, highest in more than two decades, as pollution continues to plague beach waters across the country, a report released on Wednesday said.

Sleep is essential to human well-being whether on Earth or in the orbit. It is difficult to sleep in a strange place, especially when you are far from home.

Asteroid 2011 MD, a small space rock the size of a tour bus, zipped past Earth in what was a close shave in cosmic terms. The flyby was tantalizingly close to Earth, and was at some point closer to the planet than some satellites.

An asteroid, named 2011 MD, barely missed crashing on to the Earth's surface today, but the real danger awaits us in 2182 when a gigantic asteroid may be on a collision course with this planet, astronomers warn.

An asteroid measuring 16 to 36 feet will fly by Earth on Monday, with possible viewing opportunities for a lucky few.

The last time ‘inflatable shark’ was in news was when someone tried to present one to former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the Manhattan mansion where he is under house arrest. The security guards turned away the man who brought a toothy blue fish inflated to the size of a small person and attached with helium balloons.

NASA said Asteroid 2011 MD, a hunk of rock estimated to be anywhere from 16 to 35 feet wide, is going to fly by Earth today at a distance of 7,500 miles above the surface of the planet.

On Monday, Earth will encounter an asteroid that will narrowly miss a collision with our planet by a cosmic hair of 7,500 miles. The asteroid called 2011 MD is roughly the size of a large house, 10 meters in diameter, and will fly into our atmosphere zipping by TV satellites.

An asteroid, the size of a house, will come dangerously close to the Earth's atmosphere but will zoom by harmlessly on Monday, astronomers said.

On Monday, a small asteroid is expected to just skirt by earth. An asteroid only comes this close about once every 6 years.

A small asteroid is expected to whiz by earth on Monday. It's about 16 feet to 65 feet wide. At its closest, it will be only 7,500 miles from the earth, a distance that's a little less than the diameter of the earth.

Rainfall expected to boost China's agricultural production have instead caused widespread flooding, increased food prices and caused death in the East and South of the People's Republic.

Superheroes in costume who fly, appear out of nowhere, and often have the impossible task of saving the world have always enthralled young and old alike. 2011 and 2012 have a neat line-up of superheroes trying to woo the box-office.

A telescope high atop a volcano peak in Hawaii has discovered a newfound comet which will make its closest pass by Earth in 2013 and should be visible to the naked eye, said astronomers.

South Pacific island country once had 2nd highest per-capita GDP in the world; today, 90% are unemployed and most live on less than 100 dollars a week