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The United States says it will offer a reward of up to five million dollars for information leading to the
capture
of the head of Lord’s Resistance Army Joseph Kony. He led a two-decade insurgency in Uganda and he is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes.
A judge in Brazil has ruled that four more people should face charges over a nightclub fire in the southern city of Santa Maria in January that killed 241 people. This brings the total number to be charged to eight. Two owners of the Kiss nightclub and two members of the band that was playing at the time of the fire will be prosecuted for manslaughter.
Scientists say they’ve come closer to finding the enigmatic invisible
substance
known as dark matter which is thought to make up a considerable part of the universe. The researchers say the data from a
device
on the international space station is
consistent
with the existence of dark matter but it may take some time to produce a conclusive finding. Here is our science editor David Shukman.
As long ago as the 1930s, scientists realized that what we see in the night sky is not the whole story, that the stars are not alone, that something must be filling the gaps in the galaxies. The reason is that the galaxies rotate faster than they should. To reach the speeds they do, the laws of physics require them to have more mass than we can see. So a strange, invisible material became known as dark matter and over the years scientists have tried a wide