The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will jump straight to its maximum energy without any medium-energy proton collisions, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has said on its website.
The new gas deal with Russia offering Ukraine a 30% discount on the price of Russian natural gas supplies will help Naftogaz to avoid bankruptcy, the Ukrainian national energy company said in a statement on Thursday.
The bodies of the 97 people who died when a plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashed in thick fog in west Russia on Saturday morning are being flown to Moscow.