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Justin Rowlatt | 22:48 UK time, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 Worried about your calorie count? This article is about why the calories we consume make it so difficult for democratic societies to tackle climate change. We normally...
More than 2,000 years after it was built to keep out their ancestors, Mongolians have succeeded in punching a hole through a large section of the Great Wall of China. By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai Around 300 feet of the wall in...
Iran's revolutionary guards should be subject to sanctions to force Tehran to curb its nuclear ambitions and respect democracy, the country's leading film-maker and unofficial spokesman for the opposition Green Movement has...
Defence research company QinetiQ has issued a profits warning just a month after chief executive Graham Love stepped down. By Amy Wilson, City Reporter Shares in the company fell after it said it was "unlikely to achieve its...
A former head of MI6 launched an attack on the government last night for under-financing and mishandling the military campaign in Afghanistan. Sir Richard Dearlove, who was chief of the Secret Intelligence Service when British...
page 1 of 2 by Martin Ehl Donald Tusk’s two-year-old government has mastered the art of taking credit for other people’s achievements. With great fanfare – as if after a long period of darkness (four years of a leftist...
Chinese firms are making and exporting ever more suspect phones CHINESE consumers appear fixated with Apple’s iconic iPhone. It draws throngs of eager buyers in Shanghai’s Xujiahui computer market. Similarly, at the Canton...
Wondering which way the US stock market is heading? Take some reassurance from politicians who are betting on shares more heavily than ever. The Center for Responsive Politics says 259 members of the House of Representatives...
Andrew Cosslett is a well-travelled man, even by FTSE 100 chief executive standards. When we meet at the relaunched Holiday Inn at Heathrow, the boss of Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) has just arrived from Washington DC...
Glasgow Daily Times President Barack Obama has said he is committed to finishing the job in Afghanistan. It’s not immediatly clear what he meant by that statement. There is speculation. Since the initial point of the military...
