The 71-year-old professor made the claims during a sold-out event at London's Science Museum to celebrate the launch of its new Collider exhibition, pictured. The new exhibition gives visitors a behind-the-scenes look at the LHC and CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva

Classified document seen by Norway's Dagbladet newspaper revealed that the NSA registered a total of 33,186,042 conversations on Norwegian soil just between December 10, 2012 and January 8, 2013.

Since ancient times and across multiple civilizations, Sirius, the dog star, has been surrounded with a mysterious lore. Esoteric teachings of all ages have invariably attributed to Sirius a special status and the star’s importance in occult symbolism is an attestation of that fact. What makes Sirius so special? Is it simply due to the fact that it is the brightest star in the sky? Or is it also because humanity has an ancient, mysterious connection with it? This article looks at the importance of Sirius throughout History and secret societies and will describe the symbolism surrounding it.

Sirius is located in the constellation Canis Major – also known as the Big Dog – and is therefore known as the “dog star”. It is over twenty times brighter than our sun and is twice as massive. At night time, Sirius is the brightest star in the sky and its blue-white glare never failed to amaze star gazers since the dawn of time. No wonder Sirius has been revered by practically all civilizations. But is there more to Sirius than meets the eye?