London, October 18 : A team of archaeologists has claimed to have found the underground passage in which the Roman Emperor Caligula was murdered by his own Praetorian Guard to put an end to his deranged reign of terror.
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (AD12–AD41), known by his nickname Caligula (Little Boots), was the third emperor of the Roman Empire after Augustus and Tiberius, and like them a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
His assassination was the result of a conspiracy by members of the Senate who hoped to restore the Roman Republic. However, the Praetorian Guard declared Caligula''s uncle Claudius emperor instead, thus preserving the monarchy.
London, October 18 : A NASA satellite, scheduled to be launched on October 19, will study the outermost reaches of our solar system in unprecedented detail.
According to a report in New Scientist, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, satellite is scheduled to be launched from a site at the Kwajalein Atoll in the south Pacific on October 19.
It will operate for two years in high-Earth orbit.
London, October 18 : Details of last month''s accident at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world''s premier particle accelerator, have confirmed that the machine will not restart before late May or early June 2009.
The LHC is the world''s largest and highest energy particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of protons with very high kinetic energy.
The machine circulated its first particle beams on 10 September 2008, but a few days later had to suspend operations due to equipment failure.
Officials at CERN, Europe''s particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, have said that the time till June 2009 is needed to overhaul a sector of the
London, October 18 : Children exposed to black-and-white films and television programmes are more likely to dream in greyscale throughout their lives, say researchers.
Eva Murzyn from the University of Dundee, UK, asked 60 subjects, half of whom were under 25 and half over 55, to answer a questionnaire on the colour of their dreams and their childhood exposure to film and TV.
She also asked the participants to record different aspects of their dreams in a diary every morning.
London - The London stock market rallied at the end of a volatile week Friday, as the Financial Times Share Index (FTSE) gained ground to close 5 per cent, putting it above the crucial 4,000-point mark.
The FTSE held firm in afternoon trading, despite early falls on Wall Street following more dire news from the US housing market.
The London index was up 201.6 points at 4,063 points at the close, ending what one stockbroker described as a "neurotic week."
Dubai - A court verdict sentencing two Britons to a brief jail term and a fine in Dubai was greeted as a positive solution to a case that had raised tensions between the city's native population and its large number of expatriates.
The incident has triggered a heated debate in local papers, about the effect of tourism and the majority expatriate population on the Muslim country's customs and traditions.
A British couple was sentenced on Thursday to three months in jail for having drunken sex in public on Dubai's Jumeirah beach.
Michelle Palmer, 37, a Dubai resident, Vince Acors, 34, were also fined 1,000 dirhams (271 dollars) for drinking alcohol in public.
London, October 18 : A NASA satellite, scheduled to be launched on October 19, will study the outermost reaches of our solar system in unprecedented detail. 
London, October 18 : Children exposed to black-and-white films and television programmes are more likely to dream in greyscale throughout their lives, say researchers.
London - The London stock market rallied at the end of a volatile week Friday, as the Financial Times Share Index (FTSE) gained ground to close 5 per cent, putting it above the crucial 4,000-point mark.
