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A vast physics experiment - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - reaches a key milestone this weekend ahead of an official start-up on 10 September.
The most powerful physics experiment ever built, the LHC will re-create the conditions present in the...
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The Red Cross says that it is sending workers to the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali for the first time since the brief Russian-Georgian war broke out in the...
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The format used by Microsoft Corp.’s Office 2007 programs to save documents will become an international standard after appeals against the move failed to gather...
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The world’s migration body said Friday that daily life has improved little for thousands of Iraqis living in tent camps, despite a slowdown in the number of...
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Efforts to help victims of fighting in Georgia increased Thursday with new commitments from Europe and the United States to boost supplies already being distributed by...
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UBS AG, one of the hardest-hit banks in the subprime mortgage crisis, announced Tuesday that it is reorganizing into three distinct businesses after reporting a large...
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UBS AG, one of the hardest hit banks in the subprime mortgage crisis, said Tuesday that it lost 358 Swiss francs ($331 million) in the second quarter as it took another...
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UBS AG, one of the hardest hit banks in the subprime mortgage crisis, said Tuesday that it had further losses and writedowns of $5.1 billion during the second quarter...
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The international Red Cross is seeking to establish a humanitarian corridor in Georgia’s breakway republic of South Ossetia to bring in ambulances and evacuate...
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The largest machine ever made to explore the world’s tiniest particles will be launched next month with an initial attempt to fire beams around a 17-mile circular...
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A $10 billion takeover bid from Anglo-Swiss mining giant Xstrata PLC sent shares in rival Lonmin PLC soaring Wednesday, but the world’s No. 3 platinum producer...
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The International Red Cross said Wednesday that Colombia broke the Geneva Conventions by deliberately using its humanitarian emblem during the covert military mission...
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Anglo-Swiss mining giant Xstrata PLC said Wednesday it was making a $10 billion cash offer for Lonmin PLC, the world’s No. 3 platinum producer. The offer sent...
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Iceland and Sweden will take in nearly 200 Palestinian refugees stranded in makeshift desert camps on Iraq’s border with Syria.
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The United States, Europe and other commercial powers grappled Wednesday with the magnitude of their failure to reach a new global trade pact, and traded blame for the...
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After coming tantalizingly close to a historic trade deal, World Trade Organization talks collapsed Tuesday in a dismaying blow to seven years of efforts to open up the...
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Trade officials said Tuesday that a high-level summit to salvage a global trade pact collapsed, after the United States, China and India failed to compromise on farm...
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The world’s largest commercial powers came into crucial talks on a new global trade pact pledging to assume the shared responsibility needed for solving planetary...
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The United States slammed China and India on Monday, saying they were threatening seven years of work on a new global commerce pact and using some of the strongest...
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A marathon meeting of the world’s top commercial powers ended early in the morning in Geneva with negotiators citing some progress in talks on a new global trade...
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Switzerland warned its citizens Wednesday not to travel to Libya, saying the North African nation has been retaliating ever since Swiss police arrested the youngest son...
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The largest machine ever made to explore the world’s tiniest particles will be launched next month with an initial attempt to fire beams around a 17-mile circular...
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About The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will become the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. Its main...
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The “father” of an elusive subatomic particle said Monday he is almost sure it will be discovered in the next year in a race between powerful research...
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Engineers on Friday fitted the last major piece into what they say will be the world’s largest scientific instrument _ a nuclear particle accelerator in a 17-mile...
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In this Feb. 29, 2008 file photo, the last element, weighing 100 tons, of the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) experiment is lowered into the cave at the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN (Centre Europeen de Recherche Nucleaire) in Meyrin,...
