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The Egyptian authorities have banned a 92-year-old man from marrying a 17-year-old girl, the Egyptian al-Akhbar newspaper has reported.

A 27-year-old Egyptian woman gave birth to septuplets early Saturday in the coastal city of Alexandria, family members and the hospital director said.

NASA scientists say they have definitive proof that water exists on Mars. NASA on Thursday also extended the mission of the Phoenix Mars Lander by five weeks, saying its work was moving beyond the search for water to exploring whether the red planet was ever capable of sustaining life. Pavithra George reports.

A donkey from the northeast Egyptian city of Tanta has been sentenced to 24 hours in jail for stealing corn from a field owned by a local agricultural research center, the Al-Ahram weekly said on Thursday.

Egyptian prisoners are set to be allowed to order meals from any restaurant they choose after a trial run during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan was deemed a success, a senior security official said on Saturday.

A call by Nasa for donations of urine so it can create the perfect space lavatory has been leaked, resulting in a flood of offers.

A Utah state park moved an American Indian-inspired statue of a humpbacked flute player Thursday after objections that it was offensive because the male figure is anatomically correct.

NASA scientists have discovered ice sheets on Mars that look almost identical to those in Antarctica, it was revealed today.

High-latitude areas on the Red Planet have similarly patterned ground where shallow fracturing caused by freezing and thawing has drawn polygons on the surface.

Melting snow appears to have formed a large number of Martian gullies sometime in the past few million years, according to a new study.

Gullies were first discovered on Mars eight years ago, and experts have been debating since then about what created them.

Despite initial theories that they might be proof of liquid water on modern Mars, the most recently formed gullies appear to have been made by dry landslides.