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...body of Sheik Ahmed bin Zayed al-Nahayan--half brother of United Arab Emirates President and Abu Dhabi ruler Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan--was retrieved from a Moroccan lake on March 31, five days after his glider crashed there. The death of Sheik Ahmed--managing director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds--has raised fears of a power struggle among his 17 surviving brothers for control of ADIA...
Some scientists called it the highlight of their career. On March 30, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider smashed together two proton beams. Each was moving with an energy equivalent to 3.5 trillion electron volts, for a combined 7 trillion--a new world-record energy level. The victory was a long time coming for CERN, Europe's nuclear-research group, which for 15 years has pumped $10 billion into the setback-plagued project. The experiments are expected to reveal much about the nature of the universe, including other dimensions, dark matter and the Higgs boson, the particle that could explain...
After stormy weather appeared to have caused the death of one rescue diver, the South Korean military temporarily halted its search for 46 missing sailors from the Cheonan, a 1,200-ton naval ship that sank in the Yellow Sea on March 26 after an explosion ripped a hole in its hull. Despite initial suspicion of North Korean involvement, authorities have deferred judgment until the ship is recovered...
...show of solidarity with imprisoned leader Aung San Suu Kyi, members of the National League for Democracy opposition party voted March 29 to sit out Burma's upcoming elections, which are the military-controlled state's first since 1990. Despite winning that contest two decades ago, Suu Kyi was never permitted to rule. She was forbidden to run this time around, a decision that has angered protesters in other nations, including the Philippines (above...
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's center-right coalition made unforeseen gains in the March 28 regional elections, taking four districts from the opposition--including Lazio, which contains Rome--for a total of six of the 13 contested regions. Berlusconi viewed the results of the election, which was considered a test of his popularity, as a mandate to move ahead with several controversial reforms, including an overhaul of the country's justice system and a constitutional change that would allow for direct election of the President, a position separate from that of the Prime Minister...