Kevin - Instablogs
Oct 20 2008
A controversial study indicates that there are traces of vast cosmic strings left over in radiation from the early universe.
Oct 11 2008
The international military mission in Afghanistan has “no end point”, the head of Britain’s armed forces told a newspaper out Saturday. Sir Jock Stirrup’s comments come a week after Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, Britain’s...
Oct 9 2008
Muslim prisoners are being given fresh clothes and bedding after sniffer dogs search their cells – because they view the animals as unclean.
Oct 8 2008
Men who suffer from premature ejaculation may be able to blame their genes, work suggests.
Sep 27 2008
“Peace” is apparently the word on the lips of British politicians whenever the omens point, in stiff armed salute, to catastrophe. In 1938, Neville Chamberlain gave his now infamous speech, ‘Peace in our Time,’ in which he announced that Germany...
May 16 2008
Underscoring the new Italian government’s determination to crack down on illegal immigration and crime, the authorities this week arrested hundreds of people in a massive sweep of shantytowns in major urban areas across the country. The police...
May 15 2008
Zimbabwe’s government has extended the deadline by which the presidential run-off vote must be held to 31 July. The main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said the decision was illegal and unfair. Opposition leader Morgan...
May 14 2008
Heavily armed police in Malawi have arrested four opposition officials and ex-security chiefs after the president said that was a plot to remove him. Those arrested include a former army commander and police chief. President Bingu wa Mutharika at the...
May 7 2008
I bet the real Gordon Brown has, this week, been more concerned about the Burmese than about “bin bullies”, as the Tories call them. No 10 appears to have briefed various newspapers that “bin taxes” are to be, er, binned, because voters...
May 7 2008
Defying the weight of medical and scientific opinion, Gordon Brown is to order tougher new laws today on cannabis possession. The Prime Minister has decided to overrule his own expert advisers and reverse the downgrading four years ago of...