New Delhi, Sep 8 : China has said that relevant cooperation should help maintain the integrity and validity of the international nuclear non proliferation system after the
45 nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) permitted nuclear trade with India.

“China always advocates that all countries are entitled to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, and carry out international cooperation in this regard. However, relevant cooperation should help maintain the integrity and validity of the international nuclear nonproliferation system,” said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu.

London, September 7 : Cops have started to use a branch of forensic science that analyses the electronic trail of evidence left by text messages and e-mails, to trap criminals.

According to a report in the Scotsman, British scientists are pioneering the use of forensic linguistics – the systematic analysis and comparison of patterns of written speech – to identify the authors of electronic messages and written documents.

The technique has earlier helped secure the conviction of the murderers of Essex schoolgirl Danielle Jones and Jenny Nicholl from North Yorkshire, and of al-Qaeda plotter Dhiren Barot.

New Delhi - India's benchmark Sensex index surged 4.28 per cent in early trading Monday, topping 15,000 after the Nuclear Suppliers Group gave approval for opening nuclear trade with India.

The 30-share index, which had lost 415.27 points in the previous trading session on Friday, moved up by 623.18 points to 15,107.01 soon after the bourses opened for trading.

It later shed some gains and was trading at 15,070, a gain of 4.04 per cent, at 11:40 am (0610 GMT).

London, September 8 : China has announced the date for the launch of Shenzhou VII, its third manned space mission, as sometime between 25 and 30 September.

The spacecraft will be launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the country’s northwestern Gansu province.

According to a report by BBC News, the Shenzhou VII flight will feature China’s first ever space walk, which will be broadcast live with cameras inside and outside the spacecraft.

Moscow, September 7 : Russian forensic experts have said that archaeologists could discover another site where the remains of the children of Russia''s last tsar are buried.

Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, their four daughters and son, and several servants, were shot dead by the Bolsheviks in a basement in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg in the early hours of July 17, 1918.

Washington, September 8 : Japanese researchers have come up with a new approach to user authentication and security that is based on a person''s reflexes that could never be copied, forged, or spoofed.

Though electronic fingerprinting, iris scans, and signature recognition software are all becoming commonplace biometrics for user authentication and security, they all can be spoofed by a sufficiently sophisticated intruder.

According to Masakatsu Nishigaki and Daisuke Arai of Shizuoka University, Japan, biometric information can easily be leaked or copied. It is therefore desirable to devise biometric authentication that does not require biometric information to be kept secret.