More than 60 per cent of the British countryside could be exploited for shale gas, government documents show, as ministers prepare to give the go-ahead for developing the country’s most significant new energy source since North Sea oil. The Independent understands
HE may be smarter, taller, better fed, and have straighter, whiter teeth, but today’s average 12-year-old boy is not as healthy as his 1962 counterpart. So what happened to our children? Back pain, anxiety, depression, obesity, mood swings and diabetes
Doomsday hysteria has gripped Russia and some of its neighbors. Travel agencies are selling tours to either heaven or hell and people are stocking up on food and fuel. Officials are publicly denying the apocalypse, hoping to calm the hype.
The U.S. government is surreptitiously collecting the DNA of world leaders, and is reportedly protecting that of Barack Obama. Decoded, these genetic blueprints could provide compromising information. In the not-too-distant future, they may provide something more as well—the basis for
The ongoing Internet blackout in Syria this week, like the one that occurred in Egypt early in 2011, prompts curiosity as to whether such an event could happen in one’s own country. Here’s one measure that gives a rough idea
Israel responded swiftly Friday to U.N. recognition of aPalestinian state, revealing it will build 3,000 more homes for Jews on Israeli-occupied lands that the world body overwhelmingly said belong to the Palestinians. The plans also include future construction in a strategic area
An alleged victim of the late Liberal MP, Cyril Smith – who has been accused of sexually abusing boys in his home town of Rochdale – has told the Guardiannewspaper that he was assaulted by the MP in the Houses of
Among the long list of items bundled by consensus reality merchants under the banner of ‘conspiracy theory’, is a world without cash – where technocrats rule over the populace, and everything and anything is exchanged via plastic and RFID chips. In
