Introducing his autumn statement to the Commons, the chancellor says the economy is recovering, but there are no quick fixes. George Osborne has announced that he will slash almost £4bn a year off the government’s welfare bill by uprating benefits for Britain’s poorest
In a Moroccan town square at night, a man is searching for something under a lamp post. He searches the whole night and cannot seem to find what he’s looking for. Another man who was sitting in a café observing
I never thought much about prayer, as essentially I didn’t think it worked very well. And having been trained in the Taoist philosophy, I don’t believe in an all-powerful male god sitting on a throne in heaven. In Taoism, god
It is a brilliantly clear night in 754 A.D. as K’inich K’uk” Bahlam ascends the 91 steps to the top of the pyramid of Kukulcan in the city of Chichen Itza, Yucatan. He is currently the ruler of the Mayan
Microcosmos is a 1996 documentary film by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou and produced by Jacques Perrin. This film is primarily a record of detailed insect interactions set to the music of Bruno Coulais. A documentary of insect life in
It was a moment that would have brought a smile–a sardonic one, of course–to the face of Bones McCoy. Last week, the California-based firm Scanadu announced that by the end of next year, it will begin selling a device called Scout. The
The reproductive health of the average male is in sharp decline, the world’s largest study of the quality and concentration of sperm has found. Between 1989 and 2005, average sperm counts fell by a third in the study of 26,000
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Tuesday agreed to deploy Patriot anti-missile batteries along the Turkish border with Syria, providing a measure of security for Turkey in case of an airborne attack from its war-ravaged neighbor. The decision, which had been anticipated for weeks,
Iran has vowed to take legal action against the United States at international courts for violating the Islamic Republic’s airspace over the Persian Gulf. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Tuesday that the US ScanEagle drone, which had
As the 1960s dawned, few Americans had ever seen a baby elephant. It had been more than 40 years since an elephant had been born in North America, and then only at a circus — never in a zoo. But
Police have “lost the battle” with internet fraud and the cyber scam investigation system needs to be overhauled, the Internet Fraud Watchdog (IFW) says. IFW executive chairman Ken Gamble said Australian police could not keep up with the number of
If you thought NASA’s latest Mars landing was a nail-biter, get ready for a sequel. The space agency on Tuesday announced plans to launch another mega-rover to the red planet in 2020 that will be modeled after the wildly popular Curiosity. To
