Jul 11 2008
As if recent reports of Mercurian rock-water weren’t exciting enough, H20 has been detected from an unlikely source even closer to home: Moon Volcanoes.
Apr 7 2008
There is no storefront or corporate headquarters for Cybercrime Inc., but savvy salesmen in a murky, borderless economy are moving merchandise by shilling credit card numbers - “two for the price one.” “Sell fresh CC,” promised...
Apr 7 2008
The EU’s fledgling market for carbon today shrugged off provisional figures showing that Europe’s big polluters emitted lower levels of carbon dioxide than allowed last year. The price of carbon permits for 2008 rose by 4% as investors took...
Apr 5 2008
There is something about the fight that is embroiling New York’s Sex and the City spin-off business that Candace Bushnell, the show’s originator and a keen observer of the spikier side of human behaviour, would find wryly amusing. Two...
Apr 5 2008
Authorities in the US state of Texas have removed 52 girls from the ranch of the polygamist sect led by Warren Jeffs as part of a child abuse investigation. Eighteen of the girls, aged between 6 months and 17, are in state custody. The rest are being...
Apr 4 2008
Turkey will come under pressure to follow suit if Iraq builds nuclear weapons in the next decade, according to a report to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Saudi Arabia would be likely to develop nuclear weapons if Iran acquires them,...
Apr 4 2008
On the night of July 10, 2005, an obscure militant preacher named Abu Yahya al-Libi escaped from an American prison in Afghanistan and rocketed to fame in the world of jihadists. Muslims protested Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in London in...
Mar 30 2008
A 71-year-old man has been jailed for 18 months after letting his wife starve to death. William Pottinger was sentenced after pleading guilty to manslaughter at an earlier hearing at Reading Crown Court. The court had heard his wife Gillian, who...
Mar 29 2008
Mortgage underwriter Joshua Hager saw the writing on the wall and started looking for a new job in November. Now out of work, he’s trying to get his foot back in the door of a financial firm.
Mar 29 2008
Internet griefers descended on an epilepsy support message board last weekend and used JavaScript code and flashing computer animation to trigger migraine headaches and seizures in some users.