On the eve of the public launch, a special train carrying 500 VIPs made the three-and-a-half-mile journey.

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The service will launch later this year, carrying a 10 million song catalogue.

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Early in the year, a Soyuz rocket carrying an unmanned Progress spacecraft suffered a launch failure, a failure that had some concerned that NASA might decide to leave the International Space Station without a crew.

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President Pranab Mukherjee watched the rocket carrying the seven satellites take off from Sriharikota launch centre in southern Andhra Pradesh state.

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Their launch was followed by 25 motorised boats, carrying officials, police, sponsors and camera crews.

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Olympus is carrying on the recent compact camera trend of fast-ish zoom lenses and wireless sharing capability with the launch of the 12-megapixel Stylus XZ-10.

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