By Robert Evans GENEVA | Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:11am EST GENEVA (Reuters) – Physicists from around the globe launched a major program on Wednesday aimed at converting the LHC “Big Bang” particle collider at CERN near Geneva into a vastly more powerful cosmic research machine by the year [...]

CAIRO (Reuters) ? Egypt’s ruling military council has banned discrimination on the basis of race, gender or religion in a decree announced Saturday. The measure follows last Sunday’s clashes between protesters, many of whom were Coptic Christians and troops in which 25 people were killed, the worst street violence since the fall of President Hosni [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? California is poised to vote on new rules that would require automakers to build cars and trucks by 2025 that emit about three-quarters less smog producing pollutants and also mandate that one of every seven new cars sold in the state be a zero emission or plug-in hybrid vehicle. The California [...]

While Lindsay Lohan dresses like a ghost for court and does community service at the morgue, her little sister Ali is about to make her cover girl debut. The 17-year-old graces the cover of super stylish Fault magazine. In other news, there apparently is a Fault magazine. Who knew. Her heavily made-up look, drastically different [...]

There may be a number of options for budding iPad Scorseses, now you can add Avid’s “Studio” to that list. Conveniently launching at the same price as iMovie, Avid’s intention to woo Apple’s users is clear. Those five bucks get you a tidy storyboard solution, “precision” editing, the usual array of transitions and effects, plus [...]