Taipei (Taiwan), Nov. 4 : The heads of the two main negotiating bodies of the Chinese mainland and Taiwan sat down together in Taipei on Tuesday morning for their first ever summit in Taiwan.

Chen Yunlin, president of the mainland''s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, and his island counterpart Chiang Pin-kung, chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation, met at the Grand Hotel in Taipei.

Amsterdam, Nov 4 : Researchers working at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute KNMI has improved the entire process of measuring, analyzing and interpreting infrasound, which would help them detect events that have ‘inaudible’ sounds like illegal nuclear tests.

Sources of infrasound are often large and powerful, like meteors, explosions, ocean waves, storms, volcanoes, avalanches, earthquakes and nuclear tests.

Infrasound is measured with arrays (series) of highly sensitive microbarometers.

TU Delft PhD student Laslo Evers, who works at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute KNMI, has now improved the entire process of measuring, analysing and interpreting infrasound.

London - Newly-crowned world champion Lewis Hamilton is looking to win at least two more Formula One drivers' titles but the McLaren-Mercedes driver feels Michael Schumacher's tally of seven remains out of his reach.

"I don't plan on winning seven world championships - that's a little bit much for me, I think. Michael can keep that record," Hamilton said in an interview with the BBC.

London, Nov 4 : Ireland’s largest bookmaker, Paddy Power, has slashed its odds on proof being found of God''s existence to just 4-1.

Ever since the betting opened just two months ago, people who hope to have their faith proved correct have placed 5,000 pounds with Paddy Power.

The bet, which was placed on the big question of the existence of God, was made in September, to coincide with the switching on of the Large Hadron Collider that physicists’ hope may lead to the discovery of an elusive sub-atomic object called the “God particle”.

London, Nov 4 : UK’s largest entertainment specialist, HMV, was accused of trying to glorify knife crime on November 3, when the Batman badges they were selling were found to feature the deadly weapon.

The badges, which were being sold for 2.99 pounds per pack, had emblems showing The Joker framed by a circle of 12 blades, while another quoted the movie villain’s chilling line about cutting victims: “Let’s put a smile on that face.”

The badges, which came with only a warning that the pin on the back could hurt babies, started a row when shopper Nadia Cooke saw them as she was browsing in a branch of HMV with her 11-year-old sister and 15-year-old brother.

Public sector telecom operator BSNL has launched its Web Conferencing that would permit audio, video and image transfer facility to its broadband customers.

Police commissioner Shankar Bidari inaugurated the BSNL Web Conferencing service in Bangalore on Monday.

While explaining the salient features of Web Conferencing, BSNL Karnataka Principal General Manager Subendu Ghosh stated that audio, video and image transfer could be done simultaneously through this new facility.