An online debate over global warming science has broken out after an unknown hacker broke into the e-mail server at a prominent, British climate-research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming research and posted them online. Global warming skeptics are seizing on portions of the messages as evidence that scientists are colluding and [...]

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The New Statesman has published a footling story with a rather exciting headline: Exclusive: easyJet grounds in-flight magazine after Holocaust gaffe What sort of terrible ‘gaffe’ could this be? Hold onto your hats! Apparently, easyjet published “a tasteless fashion shoot at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin”. Shock horror! In a statement to the New Statesman, the airline [...]

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Dark Helmet alerts us to the news that our good friend Lily Allen is back in the news discussing file sharing again . Tragically, it does not appear that she's used her "time off" to better understand copyright issues very much. Unlike nearly everyone else who complains about copyright infringement, she's apparently "all for" infringing on her copyrights, just so long as you pay someone -- even if...

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Rihanna is quoted as telling German Magazine Bravo that she’s looking for a guy who’s well hung. She supposedly said “He has to be good in bed and the size matters. You know what I mean'” She also allegedly went on about how she sizes a guy up by checking out his package first. It [...]

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In case you want to talk about it. I'll just be over here in a corner curled up in a little ball.

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I may be in Tunbridge Wells today but I am sure I can hear the sound of champagne corks popping in Cowley Street, Westminster. The Electoral Commission has just announced that the £2.4 million donation by convicted fraudster Michael Brown's Fifth Avenue Partners was permissible and that no action will be taken against the LibDems. This despite the fact that the company was clearly not trading in any...

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An urgent investigation into the safety of all 1,800 bridges in Cumbria is under way after the heaviest rainfall since records began swept several away and claimed the life of a policeman.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Labour Party has slashed the main opposition Conservative Party's opinion poll lead to six points, giving the government its best showing in almost a year as voter confidence in the economy recovers.

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DOCTORS urged people at risk of contracting swine flu to get vaccinated against the virus after five people were diagnosed with a strain resistant to Tamiflu.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A sweeping healthcare overhaul narrowly cleared its first hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Saturday, with Democrats casting 60 party-line votes to open debate on the biggest healthcare changes in decades.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury met Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican today to discuss relations between the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches

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Bank loses appeal over wheelchair access case The Royal Bank of Scotland has lost its appeal over a ruling that it failed to cater for the wheelchair access needs of a disabled teenager who was awarded £6,500 damages. David Allen, 18, who has muscular dystrophy, took legal action after the bank failed to install wheelchair access at the Church Street branch in Sheffield, close to where he is studying...

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