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Only lucky space agencies get second chance during space exploration, and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is one of them. The agency announced that its Akatsuki spacecraft has successfully entered orbit around the planet five years after missing a shot.

Findings of an investigation revealed that Gilead Sciences’ marketing, pricing and contracting strategies clearly show that the company always had a profit motive at back of its mind and therefore focused on maximizing its revenue.

The investigators after examining the internal documents of more than 20,000 pages and carrying out dozens of interviews with the company’s executives found that Gilead Sciences tried to make money out of its Hepatitis C drug Sovaldi.

Archaeologists during excavations at the foot of the Temple Mount’s southern wall found a rare seal belonging to biblical-era. The thing that makes the seal so rare is the impression of the name of King Hezekiah.

According to scientists, who discovered fossils of a rare creature in Spain’s Cuenca province, they have found something common between the creature that roamed Europe about 15 million years ago and queen from the Star wars movie.

The creature was named Xenokeryx amidalae, meaning ‘strange horn of Amidala’, referring to the Star Wars character Queen Amidala, a role played by actress Natalie Portman.

Two days after the Board of Health enacted salt warning labels rule, restaurateurs sued it by saying the law may mislead customers. Now, the rule will be headed for a court fight, and court will decide what to do next.

The National Restaurant Association filed a lawsuit against the city Board of Health-approved rule on Thursday in a Manhattan court, two days after the new rule took effect. As per the law, the state restaurants have to put salt-shaker icon on every menu item.

A research institute in Italy, the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), said in a statement to ABC News today that on Thursday fire and lightning lit up the sky over Sicily after Voragine crater of Mount Etna erupted for the first time in two years.

Volcanic lightning was on display over the huge cloud of smoke and fire rising from the volcano and in the dark sky.