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Passengers on a flight to Israel reacted angrily after a member of cabin crew made the announcement.

BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese President Xi Jinping called Bill Gates "an old friend" and said he hoped they could cooperate in

Ever wondered how water first arrived on our planet? Well, it turns out the mystery could finally have been solved. Researchers have undertaken detailed analysis of asteroids and the findings could change the way the scientific community think about origins of water on our planet. Experts at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) have discovered salt crystals on samples recovered from space. As their findings state, these crystals could only have formed with the presence of water. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter The research was undertaken on samples of the asteroid Itokawa in 2005 by the Japanese Hayabusa mission. It suggests that S-type asteroids could be home to more water than previously thought. The new findings led some scientists to claim that water is likely to have arrived on asteroids when our planet was first being formed. The senior’s author Tom Zega said: "The grains look exactly like what you would see if you took table salt at home and placed it under an electron microscope. "They're these nice, square crystals. It was funny, too, because we had many spirited group meeting conversations about them, because it was just so unreal. Zega added: "It has long been thought that ordinary chondrites are an unlikely source of water on Earth. Our discovery of sodium chloride tells us this asteroid population could harbour much more water than we thought." Itokawa is a S-type asteroid, and it’s thought that temperatures on their surfaces were too high for water to form. Shaofan Che, who is the lead study author, said: "In other words, the water here on Earth had to be delivered from the outer reaches of the solar nebula, where temperatures were much colder and allowed water to exist, most likely in the form of ice. "The most likely scenario is that comets or another type of asteroid known as C-type asteroids, which resided farther out in the solar nebula, migrated inward and delivered their watery cargo by impacting the young Earth." Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

Brienz was evacuated last month when geologists warned the rockface above it was due to collapse.

Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc., Richard Branson’s space-tourism venture, surged after announcing that its long-awaited first commercial passenger mission

Jack Teixeira, 21, is charged with transmitting classified defence documents on a gaming website.

A series of reports suggest the migrant boat went down after it was tied to a coastguard vessel.

A federal jury is set to continue deliberations Friday morning in the trial of the man accused of killing 11 worshippers in 2018 at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue.

By Tim Hepher, Valerie Insinna, Joanna Plucinska and Allison Lampert PARIS Global aerospace and defence companies will tout

Amazon.com Inc.’s proposed $1.7 billion deal to buy robot vacuum firm iRobot Corp. was given the all-clear by

Man returns George Orwell's dystopian novel to library decades late because of its relevance today.

A 30-year-old US man is suspected of shoving a women off a hill near Neuschwanstein castle in Bavaria.