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Suu Kyi heads for Europe to deliver 1991 Nobel speech

Myanmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi leaves for Europe, returning to the continent for the first time in 24 years. She will visit Switzerland, Norway, Ireland, Britain and France after not daring to leave her country - even to see her sons or British husband before his death from cancer in 1999 - fearing the military junta would not let her return. In Oslo she will give the speech she was unable to deliver when awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. She will also address both houses of Britain's parliament, an honour bestowed on few foreign dignitaries, and accept an honorary doctorate at Oxford.

Participants in the website name game revealed

The agency in charge of website addresses discloses the applicants for generic top-level domain names ranging from .web to .porn and beyond at a news conference in London. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has received more than 1,900 applications for names that break the .com mould. Registration costs US$185,000 plus a US$25,000 annual fee. Icann has already raked in US$352 million in fees.

Nasa launches scope to hunt black holes, supernovas

Nasa launches its NuSTAR satellite, a telescope it says will bring black holes and supernovas into unprecedented focus, from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Researchers are betting on catching a supernova in the act of exploding because in a galaxy like the Milky Way, they typically go off once every 30 years.

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