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Stunning new images released by NASA on Monday detailed new images of Uranus, revealing a stunning look at its glowing rings and one rarely seen feature. The photos, taken by NASA’s high-power James Webb Space Telescope, captured the icy planet along with its multiple inner and outer rings, nine of its 27 known moons and a seasonal polar cap. The new pictures offer a rare glimpse of the “elusive” Zeta ring, an extremely faint and diffuse ring closest to the planet — shown in a reddish brown. Multiple other rings were captured in a glowing blue. The Webb telescope also...

Cash family rejects piles of cash By Hugh Davies, Entertainment Correspondent (Filed: 19/02/2004) The family of the late Johnny Cash is outraged at a plan to use his 1963 classic song, Ring of Fire, to promote a haemorrhoid ointment. Advertising copy writers in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, thought the lyrics, ". . . and it burns burns burns, that ring of fire, that ring of fire", were perfect for such an advert. Johnny Cash So did Merle Kilgore, the song's co-writer and the manager of Hank Williams jnr. He said he had often joked about the pile cream possibilities of his...

<p>The planned sale of nearly $2 billion in bonds to pay pension obligations is a major piece of Gov. Gray Davis' plan to erase the state's massive deficit -- but it amounts to just a drop in a wave of borrowing already used or proposed for everything from paying the state's electricity bills to financing health programs.</p>