‘At lights out one Sunday evening within weeks of starting at his senior school, Joel Shaw was “stripped, sexually assaulted and publicly humiliated by my housemaster jeered on by loads of my peers”, he recalls […]

‘The recently retired UK ambassador to NATO has revealed she is voting yes to Scottish independence and insisted that NATO would welcome the new independent Scottish state. “I shall be voting yes on September 18,” […]

The Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, announced on Wednesday that he and Russian president, Vladimir Putin, have agreed to a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. However, a spokesman for Putin apparently denied any such deal had been […]

‘Tony Blair was last night improbably named philanthropist of the year by a leading magazine. The former prime minister was handed the award to a ‘muted’ response at a celebrity-packed gathering in central London. It […]

From The Daily Beast: “After a week of talk of eliminating the “cancer” of ISIS, President Obama said Thursday that he was not planning to significantly expand the war against the Islamic extremist movement anytime […]

From Channel 4: “WARNING: This video may bring tears to your eyes. We recommend a tissue. A video posted by Corey Wadden is melting hearts all over the world.  According to Corey Wadden, his mom […]

‘Anonymous UK’s website was recently targeted and taken down in the midst of a four-day privacy rights protest organized by the collective. The demonstration was held outside Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). A spokesman for […]

‘Can technology help humanity realise its full potential? Transhumanists see the merging of man and machine as a natural “next step” in human evolution, but where does consciousness fall in the equation? Instead of bringing […]

‘As the sanctions against the Russian government continue to be implemented by Western nations, Moscow has been forced to look to Asia for economic and strategic partnerships. The Kremlin has been negotiating significant trade deals […]

‘Germany’s top supermarkets, the powerhouses of Europe when it comes to retail, have delivered a blow to the biotech industry by forcing the German poultry industry to return to the use of non-GMO feed. It […]