Massive bursts of solar wind and magnetic fields from the Sun can cause huge sunquakes, according to new UK research. The results of the study, led by University College London’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory, are being presented by Dr Sergei
On Monday 20th February 2012, confirmatory intelligence emerged from Japan that, below the surface, a widening rift in geopolitical loyalties is developing between the older and younger members of the British Royal Family bloodlines. This rift is understood to be developing
London’s tempo is 122.86 beats per minute. “I brought along some field recording gear to use while I was staying in the lovely pod/room/boat. I went out during the day and recorded sounds that I thought might be useful and
Nicolas Sarkozy gave no details about the justifications for the arrests, or what specifically the detainees are suspected of. “It’s in connection with a form of Islamist radicalism,” Sarkozy said on Europe-1 radio. The raids come after a spate of killings
U.S. stock futures slipped today as riot police took to Spain’s streets to stop protesters burning bins, vandalising shops and attacking officers during a one day nationwide general strike. Dow Jones industrial futures fell 43 points to 13,010 and the Standard
Madonna is not merely some untalented pop tart singing sweet nothings into the ears of the masses that can be considered harmless or to no effect. Quite the opposite as you will see. I also understand this article will have
Worldwide declines in bee colonies, threatening much of global agriculture, may be caused by a new generation of nerve-agent pesticides, two new scientific studies strongly suggest. The findings place a massive question mark over the increasingly controversial compounds, now the
In a landmark development for the way Western companies do business in China, Apple Inc said on Thursday it had agreed to work with partner Foxconn to tackle wage and working condition violations at the factories that produce its popular
Japan´s defence minister said today he had issued an order to shoot down a North Korean rocket if it falls towards Japanese territory. North Korea has begun preparing for a long-range rocket launch next month despite international condemnation, according to
250,000 sleeping pills are taken by Danish children each year In 2010, a total of 2,274 babies and small children from 0 to four years of age took a total of 23,000 sleeping pills. Older children followed suit and according
They are related to the domestic dog, which many of us live with side-by-side each day. But despite their friendly relations, wolves are not known for getting on quite so well with humans. Often living in the wilderness, they are fearsome
Hitachi Kokusai Electric has built a high-performance facial recognition surveillance system that can pull a face from an image and identify it from a database of 36 million in one second. Welcome to the next generation in surveillance technology. A
Media outlets spike news about the Obama eligibility investigation, Russia’s government radio is keeping the world abreast of the scandal that has caused “the biggest censorship and blackout in the history of journalism.” The Voice of Russia – successor of Radio
My family recently watched the hottest movie in the country, Hunger Games. The movie is based on the first book of a trilogy authored by Suzanne Collins. The movie is a hit with the younger generation as evidenced by the members
Despite a concerted effort at Los Angeles City Hall to track the use of taxpayer-purchased fuel, more than $7 million in gasoline and other fuel has gone missing in recent years, according to an audit to be released Thursday. At
A lethal level of radiation has been detected inside one of the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, throwing fresh doubts over the operator’s claims that the disabled complex is under control. Engineers for Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco)
A new study from the University of California–Los Angeles found that long-term meditators have more gyrification, or folding, of the brain’s cerebral cortex. Gyrification has been found to be associated with intelligence, though a causal relationship has not been found.
Parents conceive baby to rescue seriously ill older child. Doctors call the event “groundbreaking”, but ethics experts caution against decreasing the value of life For any parent it would be a terrible dilemma. Their child is desperately ill with a
The government now projects that the total cost to develop, buy and operate the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will be $1.45 trillion over the next 50-plus years, including inflation, according to an internal Pentagon document obtained by
The News Corp subsidiary at the heart of claims it used computer hackers to crack rivals’ technology made a £2,000 payment to a British police force for “assistance given to us in our work”, The Independent can reveal. NDS, a
A little over a year ago, Lucy Allan led what most people would regard as an eminently respectable life. The middle-class mother, a Tory councillor, was happily married to her stockbroker husband, Robin, and doted on their ten-year-old son, who
A catalogue of failures by Nato warships and European coastguards led to the deaths of dozens of migrants left adrift at sea, according to a damning official report into the fate of a refugee boat in the Mediterranean whose distress calls went
Senior US lawmakers filed a resolution Wednesday in the Senate condemning deadly violence ordered by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and urging the arming of the country’s opposition. Republican Senator John McCain presented the text, co-sponsored by four other senators
