Geneva, September 10 : The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN was successfully steered today morning around the full 27 kilometers of the world''s most powerful particle accelerator, which is located on the border of France and Switzerland.

"It''s a fantastic moment," said LHC project leader Lyn Evans. "We can now look forward to a new era of understanding about the origins and evolution of the universe," he added.

The LHC is the world''s largest and the highest-energy particle accelerator.

London, Sept 10 : The British law-enforcing agencies have squarely blamed the US and Pakistan for not cooperating with their (British) prosecutors to prove beyond doubt that the “liquid bombers” were actually guilty of planning to blow up seven airliners on their way to various American airports from London’s Heathrow.

Of the eight men arrested by the British Police, seven admitted to blow up transatlantic airliners. The eighth man was cleared at Woolwich Crown Court. But, after more than

Peshawar, Sept 10 :Pakistan has always played a double game as far as extending cooperation with the US in catching Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden (after 9/11 attacks) is considered, said a detailed article published in the Washington Post.

It quoted Afrasiab Khattak, a Peshawar-based Pashtun politician, as saying that Pakistani forces would occasionally help the CIA capture second-string al-Qaeda figures, but to meet the objective of keeping the aid money flowing from Washington.

Peshawar, Sept 10 : After miserably failing to catch international fugitive and Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden for nearly seven years, after 9/11 2001, both American and Pakistani officials have reportedly started reviewing their policy and are now shifting their tactics to intensify the use of the unmanned but lethal Predator drone spy planes in the mountains of western Pakistan.

Washington - The United States is intensifying its use of unmanned Predator drones in the hunt for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the mountains of western Pakistan, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing US and Pakistani officials.

The strategic shift reflected the US failure to develop meaningful human intelligence in the remote region despite placing a 25-million-dollar reward for information that leads to the death or capture of the terrorist network's leader, the newspaper reported.

London, Sept 9 : A dog that swallowed its owner’s mobile phone had to undergo a surgery costing 420 pounds to get it removed.

Nero, a Doberman-Great Dane crossbreed, had snatched the Nokia mobile phone from 67-year-old Marie Matthews’ hand, and swallowed it as he was being feed by her daughter, Driekie Boojens.

"My daughter screamed terribly because we were scared that Nero would die," the Telegraph quoted Matthews as recalling.

The family immediately took Nero to a local animal clinic, where the mobile was spotted in his tummy through an x-ray.

"We were very worried. I couldn''t stop crying," said Marie.