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The Delhi High Court has confirmed death penalty to all four convicts of the December 16 Delhi gangrape and murder case. The four were convicted in September 2013 for raping and murdering a 23-year-old paramedical student.

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Amazon River

The amazon river the largest river in the world by volume and acounting for 1/5th of the globe's total river flow is 11 million years old.An international study has found that the South American river originated as a transcontinental river around 11 million years ago and took its present shape 2.4 million years ago. Prior to this publication the exact age of the Amazon river was unknown.The study has been published in the Geology journal.

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