Archive for September 21st, 2008

Stephen Hawking unveils oddest clock ever

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Famed cosmologist is on hand at University of Cambridge to introduce the strange and provocative Corpus Clock, which conveys a somber message about our relationship to time.

Endeavour put on standby as rescue spacecraft

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

For the first time since July 2001, two shuttles are on their launch pads at the same time. Endeavour is on standby in case something happens on Atlantis’ mission to fix Hubble.

Images: Top Web news gaffes

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Anyone with access to an online publishing tool can relate to that “I never should have hit the publish button” feeling. We revisit some of those “whoops” moments and their resulting consequences.

Helium leak forces two-month shutdown at LHC

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

On the heels of an earlier transformer glitch, world’s largest particle collider is closed temporarily on just day nine of its operation.

Terror chief’s poetry woos urban music set

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

OSAMA bin Laden’s poetry is wooing young people “like pop music”, with extracts soon to be published in an English journal.

Groom, best man, hurt in wedding plunge

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

A MAN’S wedding has ended in disaster when he his best man were seriously injured in a 15m fall from a restaurant walkway.

Woman found dead inside house after siege

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

POLICE have discovered the body of a woman inside a house after a siege that lasted several hours.

Search for bombing survivors

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

RESCUERS are trying to enter the ruins of a hotel to search for more survivors of a suicide bombing.

Homes ’should get free green makeovers’

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

UNIONS want the Government to pay for a mass retrofitting of homes to slash electricity use.

Boys made up abduction of six-year-old girl

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

TWO teenage boys who made up a story about the abduction of a Sydney girl in the city’s west will be dealt with under the Young Offenders Act, police say.