PARIS - SCIENTISTS unveiled new DVD technology on Wednesday that stores data in five dimensions, making it possible to pack more than 2,000 movies onto a single disc.

A team of researchers at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, used nanotechnology to boost the storage potential nearly 10,000-fold compared to standard DVDs, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

ATHENS - GREECE will open a new Acropolis Museum in June, its culture minister said on Wednesday, with the aim of bringing back historical monuments currently exhibited in the British Museum in London.

Greece has campaigned for decades to retrieve the Parthenon sculptures from the British Museum and said they were an integral part of one of the world's most important monuments, but the British Museum has refused to return the treasures.

VATICAN CITY - CYBERSPACE offers a good forum for spreading Christian teachings, Pope Benedict XVI said on Wednesday ahead of the Roman Catholic Church's World Communications Day.

'Young people in particular, I appeal to you (to) bear witnesss to your faith through the digital world!' the pope said at his weekly general audience.