British Library unites world’s earliest known Bible digitally on the Internet

September 2nd, 2009 LONDON - A British-based academic has uncovered a fragment of the world's oldest Bible hiding underneath the binding of an 18th-century book in an Egyptian monastery. According to a report in The Independent, Nikolas Sarris, a Greek student conservator, spotted a previously unseen section of the Codex Sinaiticus, which dates from about 350 AD, as he was trawling through photographs of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine's Monastery in Egypt.

July 15th, 2009 Rare 1502 hymnal given to UK university libraryLONDON — A church is donating a rare 1502 hymnal to a Manchester University library, where church members say it can receive better care. The Latin hymnal was published in London by Wynken de Worde, who was among the first to popularize printed works.

July 9th, 2009 New York Times says magazine photos manipulatedNEW YORK — The New York Times inadvertently published digitally manipulated photographs in the latest issue of its Sunday magazine, the newspaper said Thursday. In an editors note, the Times acknowledged that Edgar Martins, a 32-year-old freelance photographer based in Bedford, England, digitally altered the photos.

July 6th, 2009 World's oldest Christian Bible digitizedLONDON — The British Library says the surviving pages of the world's oldest Christian Bible have been reunited — digitally. The library says the early work known as the Codex Sinaiticus had been housed in four separate locations across the world for more than 150 years.

July 6th, 2009 LONDON - The oldest surviving Christian Bible has been launched on the Internet, thanks to a painstaking conservation project involving institutions in the UK, Germany, Egypt, and Russia. High-resolution digital images of the pages in the fourth-century book, considered to be one of the most important texts in the world, have been created to view online.

June 18th, 2009 LONDON - British newspapers more than 200 years old are now available online, thanks to a new Internet service from the country's national library. Visitors can view news more than two million pages of newspapers dated as early as 1800 from 49 national and regional titles.

May 7th, 2009 LONDON - Four James Bond classics are to be digitally restored to mark the centenary of producer Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli, who financed the movies.

April 30th, 2009 LONDON - Internet search engine Google has become the world's first 100 billion dollar brand. It is worth almost 25 per cent more than rival computing corporation Microsoft, according to the annual BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Brands report.

April 21st, 2009 LONDON - Men can guess a woman's age even when they are dead drunk, according to a new study. Males accused of unlawful sex with a minor can claim on 'reasonable grounds' that they were unaware of the girl being underage.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - The first task for the world's earliest computer - the Manchester-built Mark One - was to compose romantic verse. And now, an expert has recreated the "love poetry generator" on the Internet.

March 8th, 2009 MADRID - Material from 2,000 newspapers published in Spain and Latin America from 1777 up to 2005, amounting to 4.3 million pages, can now be consulted on the Internet. It is available at the site of the Virtual Press History Library (Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Historica, in Spanish).

January 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Barack Obama Tuesday became the first US president to swear on the Bible that Abraham Lincoln used for his inauguration 147 years ago. US presidents are not constitutionally required to be sworn in using a Bible, though most do, Theodore Roosevelt being the most notable exception.

December 23rd, 2008 WASHINGTON - Barack Obama will take the oath of office as the 44th president of the US using the same bible upon which Abraham Lincoln was sworn in at his first inauguration, the presidential inauguration committee announced Tuesday. Obama will be the first president sworn in using the Lincoln Bible since its initial use in 1861 when Lincoln became the 16th president.

December 23rd, 2008 WASHINGTON - The historic Bible that Abraham Lincoln took oath on in 1861 when he became the 16th US president will be taken out of the Library of Congress for the first since then when Barack Obama is sworn in as the country's 44th president on Jan 20. Presidential Inaugural Committee Executive Director Emmett Beliveau said here Tuesday: 'President-elect Obama is deeply honoured that the Library of Congress has made the Lincoln Bible available for use during his swearing-in.

December 22nd, 2008 WASHINGTON - US president-elect Barack Obama will be sworn into office with the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln used for his oath taking ceremony in 1861. The move further extends the parallels that Obama has drawn with Lincoln since he announced his candidacy for president in February 2007 in Springfield, Illionis, the online edition of The New York Times said Tuesday.