The new Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has won full approval from parliament for his austerity plan to deal with the country's budget crisis. The lower house followed the senate in giving his government an overwhelming vote of confidence. Alan Johnston is in Rome.

For now at least, nearly all the political parties say they'll support Mr Monti as he

sets out to

restructure the economy. He's warned that he'll demand sacrifices of the Italian people. His austerity programme will include tighter control of spending, more tax and pension reform. But Prime Minister Monti has also said he'll work for greater social fairness and create more jobs for young people.

Scientists have managed to repeat an experiment which shows

subatomic

particles travelling faster than the speed of light. There had been scepticism about the results of the first experiment. Jason Palmer has the details.

The team shook the world two months ago with its claim that neutrinos could beat the speed of light. Travelling through 700km of rock, the particles seemed to show up billionths of a second earlier than they should have. But critics said the groups of neutrinos were far more spread out in time than that tiny difference, blurring the team's ability to accurately measure them. Now the team has repeated the experiment with groups lasting for a less time and found almost exactly the same result. It's now

up to

other teams around the world to confirm the striking findings.