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Launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a cosmonaut commander, a guest flier from Belarus and NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson was aborted at the T-minus 20-second mark Thursday, delaying the crew’s planned flight to the International Space Station. With veteran commander Oleg Novitskiy at the controls, flanked on the left by Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya and on the right …

A man using a metal detector to search for World War II relics found a medieval artifact in Poland, a local museum said. The Museum of the History of the Kamień Land announced the “unbelievable” find on Tuesday. According to the museum’s news release, a man identified as Jacek Ukowski found a piece of a “medieval leaded pope’s bull.” A …

London— It was a pretty routine order for Dan ap Dafydd. The shopkeeper on Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands was just trying to get ahead of the looming Easter holiday rush by ordering chocolate eggs six months in advance. But when the order arrived, he faced a hare-raising dilemma. “I thought just 80 individual eggs were coming, but in reality I …