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The machine, which was designed to smash together beams of protons in a bid recreate conditions after the Big Bang, was launched with great fanfare last year. But, just nine days after the launch, it suffered a spectacular failure from...

As the number of people with swine flu rises fast, the authorities have been defending their immunisation plan which began this week for at-risk groups. Up to 27 per cent of the general public are expected to get vaccinated. The...

Engineers at the Cern particle physics laboratory plan to begin injecting protons into the world’s most powerful atom-smasher at around 4pm GMT tomorrow afternoon, after the “big bang machine” was formally handed over to its operations team. A first beam...

Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery — essentially, a ban on blasphemy. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that Algeria and Pakistan have taken the lead in...

ET The Associated Press The World Health Organization has ruled out swine flu vaccine as a reason for the death of 41 people who had received the flu shot. WHO vaccines chief Marie-Paule Kieny said Thursday that investigations are continuing...

A giant scientific instrument that was designed to recreate the big bang but blew itself up in the process will be back in business on Friday. Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern , the nuclear research organisation...

U.N. vaccine stockpile for yellow fever, the WHO statement said. France's Sanofi-Aventis, Brazil's Biomanguinhos and the Institut Pasteur de Dakar are the three suppliers of yellow fever vaccine pre-qualified by the WHO for U.N.-wide use. Yellow fever infects 206,000 people...

The United States and Russia on 9 November began another round of talks over nuclear disarmament in the Swiss city of Geneva, with diplomatic sources saying the talks could continue into mid-December. German weekly Der Spiegel quoted Russian President Dmitry...

Swiss officials said Friday that they had sued Google to try to require it to tighten privacy safeguards on its Street View online service. It is the latest of a series of European objections to the company's handling of personal...

A charmed run for Roger Federer that included winning his first French Open, his sixth Wimbledon and then sharing in the joy of the birth of twin daughters with his wife Mirka, has hit some stumbling blocks. After being two...