Washington  - The US House of Representatives could vote as early as Friday on a White House plan that would allow the United States to sell civilian nuclear technology and material to India.

The Democratic chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Howard Berman, has introduced the agreement to lawmakers and a vote could take place Friday afternoon, spokeswoman Lynne Weil said.

Washington, September 26: A team of University of Calgary (U of C) researchers has come up with a unique new way of testing quantum devices to determine their function and accuracy, which could pav

Washington, September 26: A line of massive boulders on the western shore of Tonga may be evidence of the world’s largest tsunami debris, which is up to 9 meters (30 feet) high and weighing up to 1.6 million kilograms (3.5 million pounds).

The seven house-sized coral boulders were likely flung ashore by a wave rivaling the 1883 Krakatau tsunami, which is estimated to have towered 35 meters (115 feet) high.

Currently, they are located 100 to 400 meters (300 to 1,300 feet) from the coast.

“These could be the largest boulders displaced by a tsunami, worldwide,” said Matthew Hornbach of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics. “Krakatau’s tsunami was probably not a one-off event,” he added.

Washington, September 26: Researchers from the University of McGill in Canada have found the oldest rocks on Earth, which are as old as 4.28 billion years, a discovery which pushes back the age of most ancient remnants of Earth’s crust by 300 million years.

These rocks, known as “faux-amphibolites”, may be remnants of a portion of Earth’s primordial crust – the first crust that formed at the surface of our planet.

The ancient rocks were found in Northern Quebec, along the Hudson’s Bay coast, 40 km south of Inukjuak in an area known as the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt.

Washington  - After a 24-hour buildup heightened by election drama, a meeting at the White House between US President George W Bush and the two rivals for his position - Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain - ended Thursday with no agreement on an emergency financial bailout.

"It is very clear we're working very hard to come to agreement," said Representative Steny Hoyer, who was present at the hour-long meeting of congressional leaders and the candidates with the president. He confirmed to CNN afterwards that no agreement had been reached.

Washington  - US stocks rose on Thursday as Congress neared completion of a 700-billion-dollar administration bailout aimed at reviving the ailing economy.

Christopher Dodd, a Democrat from Connecticut and chair of the Senate banking committee, said Thursday afternoon an agreement on a deal had been reached in principle, but must still be ironed out with congressional leaders and the administration.

"We've reached a fundamental agreement on a set of principles," Dodd said.