George Clooney's girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis has been implicated in a sex and drugs scandal after an escort testified she snorted cocaine at a nightclub linked to an alleged high-class prostitution ring.
Under the headline, "Europe's €30 trillion headache", Ambrose Evans-Pritchard tells us that European banks have amassed €30 trillion in liabilities. This is according to a new report by Standard & Poor's, which says that the banks face a serious funding threat over the next two years as authorities withdraw emergency support. We have now developed a situation where banks are...
A growing number of women are getting ‘virginity repair’ operations before marriage, it emerged yesterday.
John Radcliffe Hospital is told it may not resume heart surgery by independent review into deaths of four babies Surgery at the smallest children's heart unit in England should remain "suspended until or unless the service can safely be expanded", an independent review into the deaths of four babies at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford has concluded. The unit has been shut since February...
Blake Morrison (writer and journalist, one of whose books is As If (1997), about the murder of the toddler James Bulger in Liverpool in 1993) takes out an onion for poor, dead James Bulger and his mothe… Oh, wait. Sorry, my mistake. This is the ‘Guardian’, after all : To the tabloid press, the horrific nature of his most recent offence means that he is – and always will be...
By Chris Williamson MP The parliamentary recess has just started and it’s now just 12 weeks since I was elected as the member of parliament for Derby North. I must say I have been amazed at how quickly the Conservatives have reverted to type. Judging by the maiden speeches of the new intake of Conservative MPs, it’s clear that many of them take their inspiration from Margaret Thatcher’s...
All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: doubts over shaken baby syndrome, a new take on Alzheimer's and the decline of Phytoplankton
Honesty and openness were 'not the norm' at the paediatric cardiac surgical unit, says independent review Today's report of an investigation into children's heart surgery followed reports of "an untoward sequence of deaths" in the paediatric cardiac surgical unit at the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford between December 2009 and February 2010. It emerged that, over a period of 30 days, four...
I thought I was dreaming when I heard this this morning ! 49 minutes in on BBC I Player and Ten million quid adrift due to incorrect invoicing on the NHS
Authorities launch drive to boost conviction rate as China is revealed to be one of the main sources of trafficked people Prosecutors have responded to criticism they are securing too few convictions for human trafficking by making a plea to victims to come forward and testify against their traffickers. The director of public prosecutions, Kier Starmer, launched a draft policy on prosecuting a crime...
Although I referred to this story in a previous blog I feel, in the light of new evidence today, the pressing need to refer to it once again. The tale in question concerns the recent acquittal of Anthony Bamber for distributing leaflets pointing out the ethno-religious anomalies associated with the heroin trade. Sometimes you have to elevate yourself to a position where you can look down and analyse...
Inaccurate medical assessment and an inflexible benefit system are putting the most vulnerable at greatest risk A disturbing sleight of hand within the revised benefits system has been performed on the electorate and particularly on the sick and disabled. It goes like this: Labour replaced the previous incapacity benefit (IB) with the new employment support allowance (ESA) in 2008 and introduced a...
Roman convicts driving rickshaws as part of rehab The problems of congested roads and prisoner rehabilitation are being tackled at the same time in a project in Rome. More than a dozen men, either current or former convicts, have become rickshaw drivers in two areas of the city. The authorities say the men, who have convictions for robbery and other serious offences, have been carefully chosen and...
The BBC reporting that the BBC Trust has said the BBC is doing a grand job:BBC news coverage of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales has "significantly improved", the BBC Trust says.It follows a review published in 2008, in which the BBC was criticised for "falling short of its own high standards" and failing to meet its core purpose of helping inform democracy. Since then, the...
The most intriguing biological discovery since the giant coelacanth. Tyranny of those oh-so " rad " bushy beards is still rife I see. Looks like we’ve all been paying for lots of women to be sewn back up again to avoid being starved for a fortnight in the attic by Daddy and then beaten to death in Upton Park with baseball bats by Hubby. But it’s alright, because some bint or...
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