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The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive information, now dubbed the Heartbleed bug, and regularly used it to gather critical intelligence, two people familiar with the matter ...[Read more]
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Tests have shown that what a woman eats during her pregnancy is easily detectable in her amniotic fluid, and the foetus develops a taste for familiar flavours ...[Read more]
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China's rejection of shipments of US corn containing traces of unapproved genetically modified maize has caused a significant drop in exports. According to a new report, US traders have lost $427 million in sales. ...[Read more]
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Frankie Mullin: Use of antidepressant drugs has become more common than ever before. Perhaps it's time that we looked at the wider causes of this trend ...[Read more]
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Researchers for the Cochrane Collaboration have discovered that Tamiflu has no effect in preventing children from succumbing to influenza. In adults, Tamiflu was shown to reduce symptoms of influenza; however âno proof people taking Tamiflu were less ...[Read more]
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Jon Henley: While chancellor George Osborne preaches austerity, his brother Theo has an exclusive company just waiting to help Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals spend their dosh ...[Read more]
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Raúl Capote is a Cuban. But not just any Cuban. In his youth, he was caught up by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). They offered him an infinite amount of money to conspire in Cuba. But then something unexpected for the US happened. Capote, in re ...[Read more]
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One of the slogans of the 2011 Occupy protests was 'capitalism isn't working'. In an epic new book, French economist Thomas Piketty explains why they're right. ...[Read more]
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Soon after the 2004 U.S. coup to depose President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti, I heard Aristide's lawyer Ira Kurzban speaking in Miami. He began his talk with a riddle: "Why has there never been a coup in Washington D.C.?" The answer: "Because there ...[Read more]
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From Capone to Mexico's captured cocaine king, the villains we love to hate obscure the truth about America's secret support.
American patronage goes well beyond stoking the largest and most powerful of the Mexican cartels (Sinaloa), as well as the most h ...[Read more]
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A North Carolina church placed a statue of Jesus Christ as a vagrant sleeping on a park bench on its grounds, and the church's wealthy neighbors, who believed it was a real person, called the cops. St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Davidson installed the ...[Read more]
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