The results of repeat Neutrino experiment

The team which found that neutrinos may travel faster than light has carried out an improved version of their experiment - and confirmed the result. If confirmed by other experiments, the find could undermine one of the basic principles of modern physics. Critics of the first report in September had said that the long bunches of neutrinos (tiny particles) used could introduce an error into the test. The new work used much shorter bunches. It has been posted to the Arxiv repository and submitted to the Journal of High Energy Physics, but has not yet been reviewed by the scientific community. The experiments have been carried out by the Opera...

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Iran not to turn back in its nuclear program

Senior Iranian lawmaker Kazem Jalali said that there would be no turning back in Iran's " peaceful" nuclear program, local daily Tehran Times reported on Saturday. The remarks of Jalali, the rapporteur of Iran's Majlis ( parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, came after the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) adopted Friday a resolution on Iran's disputed nuclear program. The IAEA resolution calls for Iran to engage "seriously and without preconditions" in talks aimed at restoring international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of the country's nuclear program. Friday's meeting of the IAEA...

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Detectives re-investigating Natalie Wood case

Natalie Wood’s drowning death nearly 30 years ago came after a night of dinner, drinking and arguments but the question remains — was it anything more than a tragic accident? Conflicting versions of what happened on the yacht shared by Wood, her actor-husband Robert Wagner and their friend, actor Christopher Walken, have contributed to the mystery of how the actress died on Thanksgiving weekend in 1981. Two sheriff’s detectives are now diving into the mysterious events on the yacht Splendour, although whether they reach any different conclusions than their predecessors remains to be seen. They recently received new, seemingly credible information...

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Nurse charged with murder Case

A nurse has been charged with murder following Friday's fire at a Sydney nursing home that killed five elderly residents, Australian police say. Roger Dean, 35, appeared via video link at Parramatta court, from local cells, but said nothing and was remanded into custody until next week. More than 30 people injured in the fire at the Quakers Hill Nursing Home remain in hospital, some in intensive care. Prime Minister Julia Gillard called it "a very dark day". "To imagine the frail, elderly people caught up in a fire like that, at risk of being engulfed by flames, is truly horrifying," she said. "My condolences go to the families who have...

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Obama meets with Chinese premier

President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao conferred Saturday in a surprise meeting on the sidelines of a major Asian summit, likely focusing on the economic matters that have prompted disputes between the two major world powers. The session was not a formally planned moment of diplomacy, but rather a late add-on to let the two men continue their conversation from a group dinner the night before, a senior Obama official said. Photographers and a videographer were allowed in at the start of the meeting, where the two men exchanged small talk. They were not expected to make formal statements. The meeting came on the last leg of Obama's...

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Supercommittee Moving Further Apart as Talks Enter Homestretch

Lawmakers on the congressional supercommittee made no visible progress ahead of a Nov. 23 deadline for a debt-reduction deal even as negotiators picked up the pace of bipartisan talks aimed at an agreement. Republicans and Democrats offered a series of competing plans in the past week as they seek at least $1.2 trillion in deficit savings over the next decade, all of them rejected by the opposite side as negotiators offered little sign of progress or optimism. The 12-member supercommittee, created in the aftermath of a rancorous debate over raising the nation’s debt ceiling in August, is struggling to find deficit reductions while Republicans reject Democrats’ demands for tax increases and Democrats oppose Republican efforts to make changes in entitlement programs such...

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