Obama, Putin come face-to-face in France at D-Day event

(CNN) โ€” A much anticipated encounter between President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, came on the sidelines of a lunch held Friday to mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day. But a conversation between Putin and Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko may have been more fruitful. โ€œWe believe itโ€™s a good thing they were able to [โ€ฆ]

More arrests made in stoning death of pregnant Pakistani woman

(CNN) โ€” After a series of raids, police made new arrests in the public stoning death of a pregnant Pakistani woman, bringing the total of people in custody to 12. Farzana Parveen, 25, was killed in Lahore last month because she married a man against her familyโ€™s wishes. READ MORE: http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/05/world/asia/pakistan-stoning-death/index.html?hpt=wo_c2

Iraq, Iran Top Worldโ€™s Unhappiest Countries List

Do you live in one of the worldโ€™s unhappiest places? A new study released this week by Gallup cited Iran as the country with the highest negative emotions โ€” a close second behind Iraq. READ MORE: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/06/iraq-iran-top-worlds-unhappiest-countries-list/

Indian Girl, 13, Becomes Youngest to Climb Everest

The 13-year-old daughter of poor Indian farmers who became the youngest girl to climb Mount Everest said Wednesday that she โ€œshed joyful tearsโ€ at the summit after a grueling climb across difficult terrain and personal fear. Nepal requires climbers to be at least 16 years old to scale its peaks, but Malavath Poorna said she [โ€ฆ]

โ€˜Godzilla of Earthsโ€™: Alien planet 17 times heavier than our world discovered

By Miriam Kramer BOSTON โ€“  Scientists have just discovered the โ€œGodzilla of Earthsโ€ โ€” a new type of huge and rocky alien world about 560 light-years from Earth. Dubbed a โ€œmega-Earth,โ€ the exoplanet Kepler-10c weighs 17 times as much as Earth and it circles a sunlike star in the constellation Draco. The mega-Earth is rocky and also bigger [โ€ฆ]

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