London, October 20 : Jamaican police’s probe into a suspected ''theft'' of hundreds of tons of sand from Coral Spring beach in July appears nowhere nearer to solving the case.
More than three months have passed since the investigation started, but the police still seem to be baffled by the removal of 500 lorry-loads of sand from the beach.
London, October 20 : A new WWF report warns that climate change is occurring much faster than predicted by the scientific fraternity, and will wreak havoc unless action is taken on a global scale.
The report suggests that ‘extreme weather events'' like the hot summer of 2003, when heart stress and poor air quality claimed about 35,000 extra lives across southern Europe, will happen more frequently.
London, Oct 19 : British schoolgirls as young as 12 could be given permission for DIY (do it yourself) abortions, if a new bill, yet to be passed in parliament, goes through.
The bill has caused a huge controversy to arise, especially since the kids will be taking the pills without their parents'' knowledge and undergo unsupervised termination as late as 19 weeks.
The plans, which will be voted on, on October 22, has horrified pro-life campaigners, and Tory Nadine Dorries, a leading anti-abortion MP and former nurse has warned of the consequences.
London, Oct 19 : A computer program that can identify paedophiles, who pretend to be children on the Internet, is being developed by scientists at Lancaster University.
By analysing language and syntax used online, the new technology can reveal if an adult is masquerading as a child as part of the victim "grooming" process.
The scheme, known as Project Isis, will also be able to keep track of secret code words used by paedophiles as file names for child pornography.
London, October 19 : A new report has determined that setting up legal rights for forest-dwelling peoples costs little, and can make a big difference to efforts aimed at reducing deforestation.
Supporting the rights of the world''s forest-dwelling peoples has long been seen as an essential part of reducing deforestation. Yet policymakers have been unwilling to take on the economic and political costs of enforcing these rights.
According to a report in Nature News, fresh research has now shown that the monetary costs, at least, are meagre compared with the overall price tag of the United Nations'' proposed Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) programme.
London, October 19 : Real-life British nurses have ditched their uniforms to send pulses racing and blood pressure soaring after stripping off for a cheeky new ‘X-ray-ted’ calendar.
Some of the nation’s sexiest angels have given up their dowdy NHS uniforms for the pics.
Pretty NHS nurse models shall feature in the pulsating 100 percent Real Nurses 2009 calendar that bares girls who know all about ‘I See You’ and ‘Wahey & E’.
London, October 20 : Jamaican police’s probe into a suspected ''theft'' of hundreds of tons of sand from Coral Spring beach in July appears nowhere nearer to solving the case.
London, October 20 : A new WWF report warns that climate change is occurring much faster than predicted by the scientific fraternity, and will wreak havoc unless action is taken on a global scale.
London, Oct 19 : British schoolgirls as young as 12 could be given permission for DIY (do it yourself) abortions, if a new bill, yet to be passed in parliament, goes through.
London, Oct 19 : A computer program that can identify paedophiles, who pretend to be children on the Internet, is being developed by scientists at Lancaster University.
London, October 19 : Real-life British nurses have ditched their uniforms to send pulses racing and blood pressure soaring after stripping off for a cheeky new ‘X-ray-ted’ calendar.
