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Oil firm BP says it has reached an "important milestone" in its attempts to halt the Gulf of Mexico spill.

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UK academic quits government committee on genetically modified food, raising concerns about its impartiality.

Six "astronauts" join the Mars500 experiment

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The EU is more than half way towards cutting emissions by 20% from 1990 levels by 2020, a report shows.

Six men lock themselves into a mock spaceship in Moscow to simulate an 18-month mission to Mars.

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