"Standing on the summit of Mount Lawu, 3265m above sea level on July 21st, I was treated to one of the most beautiful views of my life," reports Jia Hao of Java, Indonesia.

"With reknowed Mount Merapi and Mount Merbabu soaked in twilight colors and city lights from Solo shining like stars, four of the major planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn lined up in a row above western horizon."

"The whole scene was simply surreal," he says, "and it did a much better job taking my breath away than the high altitude!"

Readers, take a deep breath, because this scene is about to get even better.

Venus, Mars and Saturn are converging for a rare three-way conjunction in August.

The show reaches its peak on August 12th and 13th when the crescent Moon joins them for a sunset gathering of surpassing beauty.

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East Field, near Alton Barnes, Wiltshire - Reported 26th July

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Sarkozy did not reveal what France planned to do in response to the killing, but experts and military officers told AFP to expect an increased use of spies and special forces to target militant groups in the Sahel.

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To develop the knack of taking a distance from the mind is one of the greatest blessings. It is what meditation is all about really--not chanting a mantra, or repeating an affirmation, but just watching, as if the mind belongs to somebody else.

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The human spirit is joyful, full of promise, ready to try again and again. Joining our human spirit with others who are ready to innovate, to create what is not yet available conserves and utilizes our greatest resource which is us.

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Meet Britain's oldest newlyweds, with a combined age of 184.

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Wikileaks releases 92,000 hidden Afghan war docs

In all, about 92,000 documents were released by the web whistleblower Wikileaks, containing previously untold details of the Afghan war through Pentagon files and field reports from 2004 to 2010.

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The White Horse, near Alton Barnes, Wiltshire - Reported 25th July

Roundway Hill, near Devizes, Wiltshire - Reported 25th July

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Some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records amount to an blow-by-blow account of six years of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures, two newspapers and a magazine with access to the documents reported Sunday.

The online whistle-blower organization Wikileaks was planning to post the documents on its website Sunday. The New York Times, London's Guardian newspaper and the German weekly Der Spiegel were given early access to the documents.

WIKI LEAKS - on TWITTER - Flow and Rt!

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