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U.S. willing to leave 10,000 troops in Iraq past year's end, officials say

The White House[1] is prepared to keep as many as 10,000 U.S. troops in Iraq[2] after the end of the year, amid growing concern that the planned pullout of virtually all remaining American forces would lead to intensified militant attacks, according to U.S. officials.

Keeping troops in Iraq after the deadline for their departure at the end of

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Billion-pixel camera set to snap Milky Way shots

The European Space Agency says it has completed what it calls the largest digital camera ever built for a space mission - a one billion pixel array camera that will help create a three-dimensional picture of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Set to be launched onboard the ESA's galaxy-mapping Gaia mission[1] in 2013, the digital camera was "mosaicked

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