Greece's new Prime Minister Lucas Papademos and his three-party coalition government have won a confidence vote in parliament with a huge majority. The government must approve a new bailout package and commit to reforms in order to secure the next
instalment
of an international loan.
The head of the International Monetary Fund's European department, Antonio Borges, has resigned. His job has involved overseeing the large bailouts of Greece, Portugal and Ireland. The IMF said that Mr Borges, who's been in [the] post for a year, was going for personal reasons.
The American computer chip company Intel says it's developed an
accelerator
chip that can make
the equivalent of
one trillion calculations a second. The chip, known as Knights Corner, was launched at a supercomputing conference in Seattle. It has at least 50 cores, or individual processors, on a single piece of silicon, and it's capable of running at a speed defined as one teraflop. The first computer to have one-teraflop capacity was made in 1997 and filled 72 cabinets.
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A judge in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has sentenced eight men to death and 20 others to life imprisonment for a so-called honour killing that took place two decades ago. Elettra Neysmith reports.
The case dates back to 1991 when a teenage Dalit boy eloped with his girlfriend who was from a higher caste. After several days, the pair returned to their village in western Uttar Pradesh, thinking that anger would have