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More evidence of water on Moon

London: Scientists have found chemically altered form of water is bound up in a lunar rock,a discovery that strengthens the belief that water is widespread on both the outside and inside of the Moon. The discovery by geologists at the California Institute of Technology Caltech and the Tennessee University suggested that it would be far easier for humans to one day set up a space station on the Moons surface,the Daily Mail reported.

Near Stonehenge,another henge

LONDON: Archaeologists have made a new find near Stonehenge another ceremonial monument only a few hundred yards from the stone circle. Scientists from Britain as well as teams from Austria,Germany,Norway and Sweden made the new discovery at the start of a new project to map the site. They found a second henge-like structure a circular area thought to have held a wooden structure.

Desmond Tutu plans to retire from public life

Johannesburg: Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu,who was a strong force behind stepping up the campaign against apartheid in South Africa has planned to slow down and retire from public life after his 79 th birthday in October this year. Tutu said: The time has now come to slow down,to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons,to watch cricket,to travel to visit my children and grandchildren,rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.