A Delta 2 rocket carrying the GeoEye-1 satellite lifted off at 11:50 am on Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

If critics are to be believed, the end of the universe will begin coming Wednesday when a Welsh miner's son launches the world's biggest scientific experiment to know how the universe was born.

Writing in long-hand is becoming a vanishing art among British students, thanks to mobile texting and computer literacy.

In scenes reminiscent of a generation ago, Chinese are tapping friends and relatives travelling abroad to bring back electronic devices that are unavailable in China.

A machine that took 20 years to build could either shake the foundations of particle physics or entrench it more firmly, besides addressing some of the most fundamental questions facing science now.