On 21 October the LHC inauguration ceremony will take place and people from all over CERN have been busy preparing. With delegations from 38 countries attending, including ministers and heads of state, the Bulletin has gone behind the scenes to see what it takes to put together an event of this scale. >>

Ettore Bocchia, known as the molecular chef, will be preparing the buffet for the inauguration ceremony. He tells the Bulletin about the science and philosophy behind his gastronomic creations. >>

The 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics goes to three physicists who have worked on broken symmetries in particle physics. >>

On Friday, 3 October, CERN and its many partners around the world officially marked the end of seven years of development and deployment of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) and the beginning of continuous operations with an all-day Grid Fest. >>

Awards aplenty for one CERN theorist as he wins the Amaldi Medal and is one of two theoreticians from CERN to be awarded the European Research Council’s ‘advanced grant’ >>

Gordon Lennox Munday, one of the leading figures in CERN accelerator physics, passed away on 28 July. >>

Our friend and colleague Horst was taken from us by cancer on 8 September. Horst came to CERN in the early sixties and started to work in the Nuclear Physics Apparatus Division. >>