The postponement of the restart of the Large Hadron Collider from this summer to September is due to work to raise the system’s reliability. There was a big CERN conference, and the decision was made to postpone the collider launch to September. New systems are being put into operation now, and they will raise reliability [...]

Facebook is changing its privacy settings to give users more control over who sees the information they post on their personal pages. Beginning Wednesday, the networking Web site is taking the rare step of requiring its more than 350 million users to review and update their privacy settings. The new controls are designed to simplify [...]

Denmark’s abominable handling of the Climate Summit has been clear to all: the Nazi-style repression of peaceful demonstrators, the Nazi-style suspension of the Conference on its last day and subsequent re-opening at 3 a.m. of December 19 after many delegations had gone home and not one single concrete step being taken to reduce GEG emissions. [...]

The baptism of the baby-christen- kristīšana; kristības-krikštas, krikštijimas-křest-dåb-doop-ristsed-kaste-baptême-die Taufe-βάπτιση, βάφτισμα-keresztelő-skírn-battesimo-dåp-chrzest-baptismo-botez-крещение-krst-bautismo-dop, döpelse-vaftiz (ayini, *töreni)…. The sacrament of Christening is much more than a private ceremony for your baby and for you, your family and friends. Christening is a sacrament of Christ and of his Church. Christening is very much a family affair: a special day both [...]

The violence took place at downtown Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the main focus of the protests against Mubarak, who has been in office for almost 30 years. Thousands of Mubarak supporters arrived at the square on horses and camels and launched attacks on protestors. The army had sent tanks and a helicopter to the square in [...]