WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States is launching a new push to regain the lead in the competition over who has the most powerful computer.
The Energy Department is announcing plans Wednesday to build the world's fastest civilian computer at a research laboratory in Tennessee with the help of three private computer companies.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican Air Force has released footage of what a UFO expert says are 11 invisible unidentified flying objects picked up by an infrared camera as they whizzed around a surveillance plane.
A long-time believer in flying saucers, journalist Jaime Maussan told a news conference on Tuesday the objects were real and seemed "intelligent" after they at one point changed direction and surrounded the plane chasing them.
"They were invisible to the eye but they were there, there is no doubt about it. They had mass, they had energy and they were moving about," he said, after showing a 15-minute video he said the Defense Ministry gave him permission to publicise.
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Comic actor Steve Martin will star as a new Inspector Clouseau in a fresh "Pink Panther" movie due out next summer, the film's makers have said.
Martin, who will be starring alongside Beyonce and Oscar-winner Kevin Kline, said he was intimidated at first by the thought of following in actor Peter Sellers' stumbling footsteps as the hapless Clouseau, but he got over it.
"They have different James Bonds," he quipped at a news conference on Friday.
Others in the cast of the MGM Pictures film that should reach movie houses by next summer include French actor Jean Reno and Tony Award-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth
PARIS (Reuters) - The French government is seeking to appease angry show business workers threatening to disrupt the Cannes film festival.
Restaurant owners also plan separate protests in the Riviera resort because of fears they will lose business during the May 12-23 film showcase if demonstrators cause havoc.
The event's organisers were due on Tuesday to meet unions representing 60,000 to 100,000 part-time actors and technicians who plan protests against cuts in their welfare benefits.
Veronique Cayla, who is running the festival, said on Sunday there was no reason to fear it could be cancelled and hoped to find a platform for unions to express themselves peacefully.
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Sexy starlet Scarlett Johansson has stunned Hollywood by confessing to having sex in a lift with actor Benicio del Toro.The 19-year-old star shocked onlookers at the Chateau Marmont hotel before the Oscars ceremony in February by snogging the Traffic star.She then grabbed the 37-year-old Puerto Rican actor by the hand, and led him to her hotel room.
Teleportation always used to seem so simple. All it took was a quick call to Mr Scott, and Star Trek's Captain Kirk would be beamed up from the cheap-looking scenery of some alien planet and materialise on the Starship Enterprise.
These days it's all about lasers, subatomic particles and very hard sums, but one Australian research team's world-beating discoveries in the field seem almost as far-fetched as the science fiction version. The multinational group from Canberra's Australian National University (ANU) have become the first on this particular planet to demonstrate the sharing of secrets via teleportation using quantum physics. Who cares? Well, a lot of big businesses, because their discovery has moved unbreakable codes, superfast computers and communications inaccessible to cybercriminals a step closer.
Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has taken responsibility for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops, offering his "deepest apology" to the victims, but says he will not resign just to satisfy his political enemies.
"These events occurred on my watch as secretary of defence. I am accountable for them. I take full responsibility," Rumsfeld told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Friday.
Warning that he had seen new photographs and a videotape not yet made public that were hard to believe, Rumsfeld said: "I feel terrible about what happened to these detainees. They are human beings, they were in U.S. custody, our country had an obligation to treat them right. We didn't. That was wrong.
"To those Iraqis who were mistreated by members of the U.S. armed forces, I offer my deepest apology."
The tense hearing, broadcast live in the Arab world as well as the United States, carried major implications for Rumsfeld's future but also for U.S. support for President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq.
Rumsfeld, lacking his trademark bravado, said he had created a special commission to investigate the actions. But Arizona Senator John McCain said Americans needed all the available information at once, adding he was concerned that images of abuse would erode domestic support for the war.
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