‘Last weekend we reported that the taxman was sending 40,000 letters to people it believed were failing to pay tax due on property investments. The letters said: “HMRC has data relating to landlords and is […]

 Article by Robert Fisk, The Independent . The “caliphate” has some pretty tough theatrical producers. They write a bleak and savage script. Our job is now to respond to each line, and they understand us […]

In a surprise U-turn, China’s Ministry of Agriculture has decided not to continue with a program which developed genetically-modified rice and corn. Some environmentalists say public concerns about GM crops played a key role in […]

‘In California, people with Alzheimer’s will be given transfusions of young blood to see if improves their cognition – there’s good reason to hope it might IT SOUNDS like the dark plot of a vampire […]

‘A Michigan State University professor is working on a fingerprint recognition method to track the vaccination schedules of infants and toddlers, which will boost immunization coverage and ultimately save the lives of children in developing […]

From a report on Yahoo!News: “Some 12,000 foreign jihadists from 50 countries, including Americans, have gone to fight in Syria since the conflict began, the US State Department said Thursday.  A US official, speaking on […]

From Yahoo! News: “The U.S. government has raised concerns about Israel’s arrest of a Palestinian teenager with American citizenship whose cousin was burned to death by Israeli extremists earlier this summer.  The State Department says […]

From an article in Yahoo! News: “Antarctica, the coldest place on Earth, teems with microscopic life. Tiny organisms dwell on the ice and live inside glaciers, and now, researchers confirm, a rich microbial ecosystem persists […]

From an article in The Irish Times: “THE WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has spent over two years inside Ecuador’s London embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden, plans to walk out a free man.  According […]