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WASHINGTON, May 24 (Xinhua) - California-based private company SpaceX announced Thursday that its Dragon spacecraft completed key on-orbit tests as part of a historic attempt to be the first commercial company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station. Early Thursday morning, Dragon's thrusters fired, bringing the vehicle 2.4 kilometers below the station.

Baghdad, May 25, IRNA - A member of Iran's negotiation delegation in Baghdad has ruled out the AFP report that Saeed Jalili, the Secretary of Supreme National Security Council of Iran (SNSCI), had met the US envoy. The Iranian, who wanted not to be named, told IRNA that the SNSCI Secretary and the US delegation have had no meeting and talks.

by Nadege Puljak | May 25, 2012 President Francois Hollande is on his first visit to Afghanistan since taking office earlier this month President Francois Hollande on Friday defended France's imminent exit from Afghanistan, saying 2,000 combat troops will leave in a coordinated withdrawal this year but vowing not to abandon the country. Hollande met French soldiers deployed in the volatile province of Kapisa

By Philip Pullella REUTERS Pope Benedict XVI waits prior to a private audience with Macedonia's Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski at the Vatican. The Vatican, embroiled for months in the so-called "Vatileaks" scandal involving the leak of secret papers, said on Friday its police had detained a person in possession of confidential documents. A Vatican statement said the person was being questioned by Vatican

AP | May 25, 2012, 08.28PM IST | | | AMSTERDAM - A giant radio telescope made up of thousands of separate dishes and intended to help scientists answer fundamental questions about the make- up of the universe will be built and based in both Australia and South Africa, the international consortium overseeing the project announced Friday. The Square Kilometer Array telescope will be 50 times more sensitive and