Islamabad  - Energy-strapped Pakistan on Wednesday decided to extend the daylight saving time till October end as prolonged power cuts triggered violent protests throughout the country.

Clocks were set forward by an hour on June 1 for three months to save electricity by benefiting from longer daylight. The move placed the local time six hours ahead of the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Castellon, Spain - Spanish palaeontologists have found bones of a gigantic dinosaur which was 20 metres long and weighed between 40 and 70 tons, regional officials said Wednesday.

Beijing, Aug 27 : Over 960 million people had access to phones in China as of July, including over 600 million mobile phone users, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

Madrid - Spain's Nuclear Security Council (CSN) will urge nuclear plant operators to invest more in their safety, the daily El Pais said Wednesday.

The CSN, which is the country's top authority on nuclear energy, has called a meeting with plant operators in September following a string of incidents at Spanish plants.

Recent accidents include a fire at the Vandellos II plant on Sunday, which led to its closure until the causes are clarified, and a radioactive leak which did not cause health damage at the Asco I plant in November.

Both plants are located near Tarragona in the north-east.

Wellington, Aug 27: Partners who’re not where they are supposed to be could soon be watching their exploits live on a mobile phone, courtesy ‘The Watch Anywhere Monitoring Camera’.

The revolutionary hardware, which resembles a computer webcam, is billed as an anti-theft system - but can also be used to catch wayward lovers and truant children.

Users simply install the device in the room they wish to monitor. If the motion sensor detects a disturbance, it sends a three-second video of the event to the owner's mobile phone.

Washington, August 27 : The next sample of Martian soil being grabbed for analysis is coming from a trench about three times deeper than any other trench NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has dug.

On August 26, the spacecraft will finish the 90 Martian days originally planned as its primary mission and will continue into a mission extension through September, as announced by NASA in July.

Phoenix’s main task for Sol 90 is to scoop up a sample of soil from the bottom of a trench called “Stone Soup,” which is about 18 centimeters, or 7 inches deep.