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“Somewhere in the cosmos, perhaps, intelligent life may be watching these lights of ours, aware of what they mean”, he said.

Scientists are about to embark on the biggest search yet for alien life, sweeping the skies for signals of civilisations beyond our solar system with $A135 million from a Russian billionaire and the backing of physicist Stephen Hawking.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is “obsessed with the idea of testing NATO”, says ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili in an exclusive interview to The Independent.

“Or do our lights wander a lifeless universe?”

“In an infinite universe, there must be other occurrences of life“, Hawking said at the launch of Breakthrough Initiatives. “We must know”, said Hawking at the launch event.

When talks re-start, Pakistan will have to extend the non-discriminatory market access (NDMA) status to India (the earlier term “most favoured nation” has been discarded because of political reasons), which basically means that it will treat India the same as its...

Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ukraine are the countries undertaking the independent criminal investigation into the downing of MH17.

“Our troops effectively retaliated to the unprovoked firing from across the border“, the Spokesman said.

“Thanks for flying with us and have a nice day”, she said.

Arms control experts tend to say this is about the best we could get.

Serena Williams of the United States celebrates as she defeats Maria Sharapova of Russian Federation in their women’s singles semifinal match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Thursday July 9, 2015.

“The S-300 SAM is a merely defensive system which fell under the sanctions neither in 2010, when they were introduced, nor now that an agreement has been reached as a result of talks between Iran and the six mediators on the Iranian nuclear program to extend the arms...

Lavrov also said that because the Iranian nuclear weapons threat had now been dealt with he expected the U.S.to give up on a missile defense shield in Europe, citing U.S. President Barack Obama words during a 2009 speech in Prague that there would be no more need to create a...

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) concluded a two-day meeting July 10 in Ufa, Russia, just two days after the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit in the same city. The summits are sure to have pleased Putin, who insists that a multi-polar world...

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – which represent 40% of the world’s population, agreed in 2013 to establish their own development bank, with estimated capital of $100 billion. Russia’s economy has contracted and its currency has sunk due to the...