South American leaders are meeting in Peru to discuss Sunday's disputed presidential elections in Venezuela. The regional group, UNASUR, is expected to give its backing to results which awarded a
narrow
victory to make Nicolas Maduro the chosen successor of the late president Hugo Chavez. His challenger Henrique Capriles says he won't accept the results until the votes are recounted.
Astronomers using NASA's powerful Kepler space telescope say they've identified two planets that appear
capable
of supporting life. The planets orbit a sun-like star 1200 light years away that has been named Kepler 62. Paul Heads is NASA's director of astrophysics. "Today's announcement is about a Kepler discovery, one which takes us on the path towards understanding how many planets are around other stars and whether they are small enough to be rocky, and whether any of them might be habitable, and have liquid water on them. This is a
gradual
path that Kepler has been taking us down. And today's exciting announcement takes us even closer to that goal of finding habitable planets around other stars."
The British artist Storm Thorgerson famous for designing album covers for the rock band Pink Floyd has died. He was 69. A childhood friend of the band, his art work graced their most famous records from flying pigs over Battersea Power Station on the album cover of Animals to the rainbow prisms for the Dark Side of the Moon. The Pink Floyd guitarist and vocalist David Gilmour said the artwork of Storm Thorgerson had been an inseparable part of the band's work.