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 - Nationalized Northern Rock mortgage lender was Friday accused of being the "most aggressive" among British banks on the sensitive issue of home repossessions, a charge it immediately rejected.

A BBC report, based on information gained from charities linked to mortgage lending, said Northern Rock, Britain's fifth-biggest lender, was twice as likely as other banks to move to repossess a home.

"There's not a lot of flexibility being shown by Northern Rock," Chris Tapp, director of the charity Credit Action, said. "They are not giving people a lot of time, they seem to be moving for repossessions quite quickly as a resort."

London - The lavish gardens of Buckingham Palace, accessible only to those invited by Queen Elizabeth II, will be open to the public for the first time in their 200-year-history next year, it was announced Friday.

At 16 hectares, the space is the biggest private garden in the heart of London, open only to invited guests at summer garden parties and other celebratory events.

But from 2009, groups of up to 25 people will be able to book a tour on selected dates in April, May and June for 20 pounds (35 dollars) per head.

Attractions include a wisteria-clad summer house, a rose garden, a romantic lake, wild flowers and mature trees. The garden is home to 30 species of birds and a quarter of the total British list of moths and butterflies.