The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) which lies under the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva was built by CERN to advance and explain the deepest laws of physics in nature. The world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, the LHC, has brought about many great discoveries like the actual creation of ‘dark matter’, ...
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George Bush’s recent admissions on US torture techniques really created a furore on the international scene. He clearly stated that the US had used ‘waterboarding’ – which is an act of brutal torture, considered a crime under US law as well as international law – to extract information from prisoners. ...
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Rolls Royce has had a great run in manufacturing aircraft engines - until now. The new Trent 900 engine fitted onto the Airbus A380 fleet is causing the Rolls Royce company some serious issues.
Qantas grounded its entire A380 fleet following an accident at Singapore's Changi airport on the 4th of ...
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The US Federal Reserve plans to pump $600 billion into the banking system a day after the Republicans swept to a majority in the House on an anti-deficit platform. This happened as the Fed ventures into uncharted waters in an ongoing struggle to reduce long-term interest rates in order to ...
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US Sec. Def. Robert Gates has said that the US wants a larger military presence in the Asian sub-continent.
Robert Gates, who is en-route to Australia for annual security talks, said that having better ties with Australia would enable the US to expand its military role in the South-East Asian region. ...
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Myanmar had its first election in two decades this Sunday. The international community feels that the poll is a sham to create a puppet democracy by the currently ruling military.
The military government has made all efforts to weaken the pro-democracy parties. Two thirds of the total candidates are from the ...
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Haiti’s death toll due to cholera epidemic has exceeded 500, as per health minitry reports. This is a fall out after the Hurricane Tomas. Hundreds of people are still suffering. The health ministry has put the figure of total affected to 7359
The local authorities and different agencies are doing their ...
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It is a normal human nature that if he is at an office with hectic work schedule, his mind will ponder, why I have work like this? I need some free time without any work and commitments. And when the person is free at the home, contrastingly he thinks that ...
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Mexico City: A Aero-Caribbean flight crashed in the central province of Sancti Spiritus on Thursday afternoon. The plane was flying to Havana after taking off from Santiago de Cuba. The crash took place in the mountains and among the dense thorny trees. This made the rescue work more difficult. There ...
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A suspected Taliban sucide bomber today struck a mosque in north-western Pakistan. This mosque was targeted as it was frequented by anti-Taliban tribal leaders. This was the deadliest blast this year and it claimed 67 lives.
Pakistan had been facing frequent attacks from the Taliban which once enjoyed full support from ...
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