February 10, 2007
New York City is about to become a laboratory to test ways of strengthening the nation’s defences against a terror attack by a nuclear device or a radioactive “dirty bomb”.
February 10, 2007
February 8, 2007
The recent news about smoking was sensational: some people with damage to a prune-size slab of brain tissue called the insula were able to give up cigarettes instantly.
February 8, 2007
February 8, 2007
Indonesia, which has had more human cases of avian flu than any other country, has stopped sending samples of the virus to the World Health Organisation...
February 8, 2007
February 7, 2007
An Iranian diplomat was abducted on Sunday evening when his convoy was stopped by men with official Defence Ministry identification in the Karrada neighbourhood in Baghdad...
February 7, 2007
February 6, 2007
New software may add extra security but banks believe the process hampers convenience of online use
February 6, 2007
February 5, 2007
Iran opened one of its nuclear sites to a large number of local and international reporters...
February 5, 2007
February 5, 2007
Enemy forces are seeking to use China’s legal system to Westernise and divide the country...
February 5, 2007
February 5, 2007
The Bomb and Iran’s showmen nuclear experts say their country could potentially get fuel for an atom bomb in three years. Even so, its very public declarations appear to contain large doses of domestic political posturing and outright bluffing
February 5, 2007
February 5, 2007
The Super Bowl, America’s most important football final, will end about 10 p.m. local time on Sunday...
February 5, 2007
February 4, 2007
US and Europeans are under pressure from developing countries, notably Brazil, to curb subsidies and cut tariffs on agricultural products
February 4, 2007
January 31, 2007
Sixty years ago, a group of physicists concerned about nuclear weapons created the Doomsday Clock and set its hands at 7 minutes to midnight. Now, the clock’s keepers, alarmed by dangers like climate change, have moved the hands up to 11:55 pm.
January 31, 2007
January 30, 2007
Saturday at Davos saw a heated debate over supplying low cost computers to children in developing countries
January 30, 2007
January 28, 2007
Halving current 90-nanometre level, chips more efficient, could allow mobiles to play long videos without battery drain
January 28, 2007
January 27, 2007
The folksy artist whose latest album is about to be released speaks about her music mantras, her boring image and her famous father.
January 27, 2007
January 27, 2007
Rinko Kikuchi may travel with an interpreter, but her English is Baccarat-clear when she’s thirsty.
January 27, 2007
January 27, 2007
She is perfect wife, mother of two adopted children and the UN’s face in some parts of the world. But after a bitchy interview and the cold act at the Golden Globe, the sceptics are back. Is Good Angelina packing up?
January 27, 2007
January 25, 2007
It seemed like an ordinary day earlier this month at the Jianying Hope School for migrant children here...
January 25, 2007
January 25, 2007
Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who narrowly lost the presidency to President Bush in 2004...
January 25, 2007
January 24, 2007
The first two words of the evening on Tuesday were evidence of how much has changed here: “Madam Speaker,” boomed Congressional escorts: “the President of the United States.”...
January 24, 2007
January 24, 2007
There were no allusions to checking stem cell research or banning gay marriage
January 24, 2007
January 23, 2007
Two years before the next president is inaugurated and a full year before the first vote is cast...
January 23, 2007
January 23, 2007
US, Russia had not conducted such tests for two decades, and the international norm had changed because many private satellites had been launched
January 23, 2007
January 22, 2007
China’s apparent success in destroying one of its own orbiting satellites with a ballistic missile signals that its rising military intends to contest American supremacy in space...
January 22, 2007
January 22, 2007
Quetta is now the headquarters of the Taliban movement. What role are Pakistan’s intelligence agencies playing to sustain their presence?
January 22, 2007
January 22, 2007
Long-playing records are gathering dust in the homes of many music lovers, who hope to hear their contents one day on a CD player or iPod. Now...
January 22, 2007