Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi registers NLD party

Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has officially registered her National League for Democracy (NLD) party and visited parliament. During a visit to the capital, Naypyidaw, she also met with the speakers of the two houses. Her party was declared illegal after it boycotted last year’s elections, widely criticised as undemocratic.

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Earth-size planets spotted around distant star

Scientists have found two Earth-sized planets orbiting a star outside the solar system, an encouraging sign for prospects of finding life elsewhere. The discovery shows that such planets exist and that they can be detected by the Kepler spacecraft, said Francois Fressin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.

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Beethoven’s hearing loss linked to lack of high notes in his music- research

Beethoven’s progressive deafness shaped his later musical style as he switched to lower notes as he had difficulty hearing higher ones, a study has found. Researchers have analysed Beethoven’s music through his life as his hearing problems are said to have progressed. It was found that his compositions gradually included fewer high notes as he aged.

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