G-8, G-5 agree to agree

The world’s brightest faith healers wrote down the prescription for healing planet earth in this quake-hit town in Italy after day-long consultations on how to rid the globe of its major illnesses, but stopped short of administering the medication. As things stand at the end of Day 2 of the talkfest featuring some of the world’s best speakers, from Presidents Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, Jacob Zuma, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Dmitry Medvedev and Felipe Calderon to Prime Ministers Gordon Brown, Silvio Berlusconi, Manmohan Singh and Chancellor Angela Merkel, among others, there was a one-line message for the planet’s 6.7 billion people: "Yes, we can". It will, however, take more than placebo to cure the planet of the scars inflicted by hunger, pollution, greed, waste and mismanagement.

Experts and "non-state actors" clued into the summit confided that major differences still linger between Russia and the rest of the G-8 members on addressing the climate issue, just as there is a variance in commitment between the EU and the US on the extent to which they are willing to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

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First planet from outside Milky Way is spotted

A team of astronomers has claimed to have seen hints of the first planet to be spotted outside the Milky Way galaxy, in the Andromeda galaxy.

According to a report by BBC News, the team, which has made the finding, is made up of researchers from the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Italy and collaborators in Switzerland, Spain, and Russia.

They exploited a type of gravitational lensing called microlensing to make the discovery.The effect of large, massive objects between an observer and a distant planet or star can cause distortion or multiple images as the intermediary object’s gravity bends the passing light.

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World Health Organisation raises tally of H1N1 cases to 1,516

The World Health Organisation has updated its tally of confirmed human cases of swine flu to 1,516. The global body says 22 countries have reported cases since the outbreak began two weeks ago.

Mexico has 822 laboratory confirmed cases, including 29 deaths.

The United States has 403 cases and one death. Canada has 165 cases, followed by Spain (57) and Britain (27).

Germany has nine cases, New Zealand has six, Italy has five, and Israel and France each have four.South Korea and El Salvador have two cases each, while Austria, Hong Kong, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Guatemala, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal and Switzerland each reported one case.

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