Titan sits 1.4 billion kilometers from the Sun, wrapped in a nitrogen haze so thick that when the European Space Agency's Huygens probe parachuted through it on January 14, 2005, the descent took two hours and twenty-seven minutes.
The Asháninka and Shipibo people, who have lived in the central Peruvian Amazon for many centuries, have a name for it: Shanay-Timpishka.
If you ask someone why they don't have close friends, they will usually give you an answer that sounds practical.
Several thousand angry villagers in southern China clashed with police during protests over local land requisitions and village elections, police and reports said Thursday.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Friday inaugurated a $98 million Chinese-built military college and claimed the West threatened a "military invasion" during the country's political woes.
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