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ATHENS: A baby and a toddler died on Friday when a migrant boat sank in the Aegean Sea, the Greek coastguard said, as rescuers searched for another four people missing.The accident occurred near the tiny Greek island of Oinousses, located between the island of Chios and the Turkish coast. Four children were rescued along with five men and three women, the coastguard said. Their nationalities were not immediately known.Another two children are believed to be missing, the coastguard said, in addition to a man and a woman. Hundreds of migrants and refugees have died in recent years while attempting to cross the Aegean Sea in small, overloaded boats. Over 50 have died so far this year, according to the International Organisation for Migration.Greece is hosting some 70,000 mostly Syrian refugees and migrants who have fled their countries since 2015, and crossed over from neighbouring Turkey. Under an agreement reached with the European Union in 2016, Turkey has made greater efforts to limit...

TOKYO: Astronomers have discovered a 13-billion-year-old galaxy cluster that is the earliest ever observed, according to a paper released on Friday, a finding that may hold clues about how the universe developed.Such an early-stage cluster -- called a protocluster -- is "not easy to find", Yuichi Harikane, a researcher at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan who led the international team, said in a press release."A protocluster is a rare and special system with an extremely high density," Harikane said, adding that the researchers used the wide viewing field of the Subaru telescope in Hawaii to "map a large area of the sky" in their search.The discovery of the protocluster, a collection of 12 galaxies, suggests that large cosmic structures were present in the very early stages of the universe, which scientists believe was born 13.8 billion years ago.One of the 12 galaxies is known as Himiko, a giant gas cloud found in 2009 by using the same tele...

Donald Trump flew back to Washington on Thursday and into the biggest crisis of his tempestuous presidency, raging at enemies and talking darkly of a conspiracy.Trump’s three day trip to New York was meant to showcase his achievements in a speech to the United Nations and multiple meetings with other world leaders. But everything vanished into the vortex of the Democrats’ decision to open an impeachment investigation over allegations that he shook down Ukraine’s president for dirt on Joe Biden, the current frontrunner to be his Democratic opponent in the 2020 presidential elections.The former real estate tycoon and reality TV performer returned to Washington on Air Force One as only the fourth president to face an impeachment inquiry. Trump goes further than merely insisting he did nothing wrong when talking to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.Instead, he is painting the allegations as part of a plot, setting the stage for a political and legal struggle sure to stress an already ...

GUWAHATI, India: Even in the topsy-turvy world of Indian religion, Motibar Rahman stands out as a Muslim looking after a Hindu shrine, as his family has done for centuries -- on the ‘Orders of Lord Shiva himself.’Like his forefathers, Rahman, 73, sweeps the Burha Gosair Than shrine every morning and lights candles for Shiva, one of Hinduism’s foremost deities, who many believe resides inside."Before me, my father used to do this work and his father before him. Our family has been the keepers of this holy place for the past 500 years," the 73-year old told AFP. "The first man in our family is Borhansa. Lord Shiva came to Borhansa and told him, ‘I want to live in this place. From now on it will be the responsibility of your family to keep this place. I shall accept service from your family only and no one else’," Rahman explained.The shrine is in Assam state, part of India’s far-flung northeast, long a melting pot of ethnic groups and religions sandwiched between Musl...

NEW DELHI: An Indian military helicopter on a training mission in Bhutan crashed on Friday, killing two pilots, India’s army said.The single-engine Cheetah helicopter was on its way from Khirmu in India’s northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh to Yongphulla in Bhutan. One of the pilots who died was from the Indian Army while the other was from the Royal Bhutan Army."Ground search and rescue were launched immediately from Yongphulla. The wreckage has been located," the Indian Army said in a statement. Bhutanese pilots have been training with the Indian military since 2014 as a part of an arrangement between the two countries.Cheetahs are vintage planes which have been in the Indian Army for decades despite their poor safety record. In 2016, three Indian army officers were killed when the Cheetah crashed in West Bengal state.Another three officers lost their lives in 2014 in a similar incident involving the Cheetah in northern Uttar Pradesh. The choppers were built by India’s ...