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A European spacecraft took off today to spearhead the search for another “Earth” among the stars.The Corot space telescope blasted off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan shortly after 2.20pm.
Corot, short for convection rotation and planetary transits, is the first instrument capable of finding small rocky planets beyond the solar [...]

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Former President Gerald Ford, who healed a divided nation in the wake of President Richard Nixon’s resignation and the Watergate scandal, has died in the U.S. state of California at the age of 93.
He had battled pneumonia and undergone two heart procedures earlier this year. VOA National correspondent Jim Malone has a look back [...]

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