Gas emissions reduced by changing farm animal diet says study
Research shows how to reduce the amount of methane produced by cows and sheep belching and breaking windA change of diet could help flatulent farm animals reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, a study...
View ArticleFake bomb found on cargo plane
Man arrested in London as investigation is launched into hoax device placed on UPS flight to IstanbulAn investigation has been launched into how a fake bomb was transported on a cargo plane from the...
View ArticleWalmart sex-bias case divides US supreme court
Potential liability in the ten-year-old case could reach into billions of dollarsConservative judges on the US supreme court sharply challenged lawyers attempting to bring the biggest sex...
View ArticleBBC website goes down
BBC blames technical problems rather than attack after news website goes offline for nearly an hourThe BBC's website, bbc.co.uk, went offline for almost an hour last night. The corporation's press...
View ArticleForensics cut will be 'disastrous' for victims of injustice
Fragmented crime scene services may go overseas or to private companies if proposed changes go aheadMiscarriages of justice will not be corrected and public confidence in the criminal justice system...
View ArticleMan Booker Prize: Amelia Hill on the 'Olympics of literature'
Philip Roth, Philip Pullman, Anne Tyler and John le Carré among the nominees for the prestigious prizeIt is the most prized literary award of all, an accolade that honours a writer's entire body of...
View ArticleJaume Plensa, the Catalan sculptor shaping up in Yorkshire
Plensa is staging his first big show in the UK but his work – Breathless, Dream and more – is already familiar hereOn a surprisingly warm spring day in west Yorkshire the Catalan artist Jaume Plensa is...
View ArticleNew Europe: Juan Miró, a titan of art whose presence is still felt
The expressionist pioneer Juan Miró, once feted as the greatest living painter in Spain, is the subject of a forthcoming Tate exhibitionIn a small, windowless room away from the crowds at the Barcelona...
View ArticleFrom the Turks to Assad: to us Syrians it is all brutal colonialism | Rana...
In taking on the Assad family mafia and paying with blood to do so, Syrians have rediscovered their struggle for freedomI was five when emergency law was imposed in my native Syria. I am now 53. During...
View ArticleResponse: Yes, Nato's defence of Kosovo was long and costly, but it was...
Intervention not only halted ethnic cleansing but laid a path to democracyDavid N Gibbs suggests that Nato's 1999 aerial campaign in Serbia set an abysmal precedent for future humanitarian...
View ArticleCriminal cases review commission: the last bastion of hope
Inside the independent body set up to investigate miscarriages of justice after the court of appeal has thrown them outThe view from Alpha Tower, the looming skyscraper that is home to the criminal...
View ArticleFemale circumcision prevention post abolished by government
Charities say that efforts to eradicate the procedure will be undermined, leaving 24,000 girls at riskThe government has abolished the only Whitehall post devoted to work preventing women and girls...
View ArticleDebunking stereotypes: Spanish practices
Iberian unions' 'zombie deals' could be called Spanish practices, but the term for absurd union rights is a British inventionSpanish practices are really a British invention. The term evolved over...
View ArticleWhy Spain's struggling welfare system is leading to panic over future pensions
Low birthrates and a society 'overly reliant on family provision' may cause severe financial problems for older generations"Short on children and short on family policies." That was how demographers...
View ArticleBasque country's thriving big society
Worker co-ops and txoko dinner clubs have helped this once- depressed region weather the slump better than most of SpainWhen Javier Larañaga wants to relax, he shuts up his bar in the Basque heartland...
View ArticleSpain's unemployed: one in five under 30 still looking for that first job
With the 16-19-year-old jobless rate at 43%, the young think they face emigration or harder lives than their parentsTomorrow Jesus, 34, is off to Shanghai. His career in international development ran...
View ArticleKill teams in Afghanistan: the truth | Malalai Joya
These disgusting photos of murdered Afghans reveal the aggression and racism underpinning the occupation of my countryThe disgusting and heartbreaking photos published last week in the German media,...
View ArticleUK Uncut arrests threaten future protests, lawyer warns
Matt Foot, solicitor at Birnberg Pierce, says the detention of 145 activists will 'threaten the right to peacefully protest'A lawyer at a leading civil liberties firm has expressed fears for the future...
View ArticleMPs warn against legal aid reforms in divorce cases
Restricting support to disputes featuring claims of domestic violence will encourages false allegations, says select committeeMaking eligibility for legal aid in divorce and custody cases dependent on...
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