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Zachary Davies Boren

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Zachary Davies Boren writes for Energydesk, a news and investigations site run by Greenpeace

The Revenant looks unstoppable
News

Every major award The Revenant has won

'I want to change my last name to make it sound less Jewish'
News

Bernie Sanders and Larry David spoof Curb Your Enthusiasm on SNL

My Beautiful Broken Brain is a new Netflix documentary produced by David Lynch
News

New David Lynch documentary is coming to Netflix

Beyonce rocked the house at Super Bowl 2013
News

Everyone performing at the Super Bowl halftime show

This is the end
TV & Radio

Fargo: The perfect ending

It's just a flying saucer
TV & Radio

Fargo review: A climax worth waiting for

Benedict Cumberbatch won a BIFA in 2014
Film

What are the BIFAs and why do they matter?

*I think I can I think I can I think I can*
TV & Radio

We need to talk about the aliens on Fargo

'I just want my son back!'
TV & Radio

Nobody is safe anymore on Fargo

Gangster mother Floyd declares war
TV & Radio

Fargo review: What a lovely war

Could you tell the difference between this and an organic alternative?
Americas

McDonalds french fries cost $133 in Venezuela

Home News

Woman assaulted by protesters at Million Mask March

Europe

Blast heard in centre of Swedish capital 'caused by gas leak'

Europe

Blast heard in centre of Swedish capital 'caused by gas leak'

Chicago police address journalists over schoolboy Tyshawn Lee's murder
Americas

9-year-old killed in Chicago was ‘targeted’ by gangs

If you tried calling HMRC then your fine may be cancelled
Home News

HMRC may cancel your tax fines if you tried to call them

The sax in 'saxophone' recognises its inventor
Tech

5 things you didn't know about Adolphe Sax

'I'm not a crook'
TV & Radio

Fargo review: The race is on

'I'm not a crook'
TV & Radio

Fargo review: The race is on

The eastern coyote aka coywolf
Science

New coyote-wolf hybrid sees explosion in numbers

Middle East

Plane 'broke up in mid-air' before crashing in Egypt's Sinai

Shaker Aamer was released from Guantanamo Bay in October after being held for 14 years
Home News

Shaker Aamer calls for inquiry into UK torture allegations

11 refugees - four of them babies - died on refugee journey from Turkey to Greece
Europe

Four babies among 11 refugees drowned near Greece

Isis is attacking towns in the Homs province
Middle East

Isis takes control of Syrian town near Homs

Egypt's Prime Minister Sherif Ismail examines the crash site Reuters
Africa

Egypt plane crash pilot worried about plane's condition, wife claims

Ted Danson in Fargo
TV & Radio

Fargo review: Everything is at stake

Nick Offerman rants about the military industrial complex and Watergate on Fargo
TV & Radio

Fargo review: Total chaos but it’s still brilliant

Egypt's Prime Minister Sherif Ismail examines the crash site Reuters
Africa

Egypt plane crash pilot worried about plane's condition, wife claims

Ted Danson in Fargo
TV & Radio

Fargo review: Everything is at stake

Nick Offerman rants about the military industrial complex and Watergate on Fargo
TV & Radio

Fargo review: Total chaos but it’s still brilliant

FC Lampedusa in Hamburg is an inspirational refugee football team
Europe

FC Lampedusa, and Europe's new refugee football project

Europe

FC Lampedusa, and Europe's new refugee football project

FC Lampedusa in Hamburg is an inspirational refugee football team
New images of Saturn's sixth largest moon Enceladus
Science

Nasa has new pictures of Saturn's maybe habitable moon

Kirsten Dunst fronts the new season of cult series Fargo
TV & Radio

Fargo creator Noah Hawley talks new season

Iran tested a nuclear-capable ballistic missile on October 10
Middle East

US fury over Iran missile test

Microsoft wants to buy your old laptop (so you buy its new one)
Tech

Microsoft launches scheme will pay people for old laptops

Microsoft wants to buy your old laptop (so you buy its new one)
Tech

Microsoft launches scheme will pay people for old laptops

Tom Hardy as the Kray twins
Science

Scientists figure out why people procrastinate

This kid gets it
People

Brian Slack got the best birthday card ever from his 11-year-old

The NHS is in crisis
UK Politics

The financial meltdown of the NHS, in one chart

Kim Jong-un is celebrating his party's 70th anniversary with a giant military parade
Asia

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un rallies army for massive parade

An aerial view shows a glass suspension bridge at the Shiniuzhai National Geo-park in Pinging county, Hunan province, China
Asia

China opens 600ft high glass-bottomed bridge

Kingston Police found a 'forest' of marijuana plants (Kingston Police)
Home News

Cannabis forest 'the size of a football pitch' discovered in London

The original Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo da Vinci
Europe

500-year-old mystery of Mona Lisa's identity on verge of being solved

The aftermath of the air crash in Shoreham
Home News

Shoreham plane crash pilot has not been questioned

Police are investigating a shooting near St Helens primary school (Danny Lawson/PA Wire)
Crime

Gunman on the loose in Scotland after shooting near primary school

There's been a longstanding controversy over the injuries football players suffer
NFL

Almost all NFL players have rare brain disease

The world record Meccano Bridge in Belfast (PA)
Home News

Belfast's 100ft Meccano bridge just set a Guinness World Record

Home News

Belfast's 100ft Meccano bridge just set a Guinness World Record

The world record Meccano Bridge in Belfast (PA)
Chelsea Manning sued the US government for the right to live as a woman
News

Chelsea Manning to sue US military again

Some iPhone users have been confused as to how they charge the battery (Pixabay)
Tech

No, charging your iPhone overnight does not destroy the battery

Some iPhone users have been confused as to how they charge the battery (Pixabay)
Tech

No, charging your iPhone overnight does not destroy the battery

The porn filters aren't really working out
Tech

Most Britons don't want David Cameron's porn filters

The porn filters aren't really working out
Tech

Most Britons don't want David Cameron's porn filters

Sir Alex Ferguson said he needed to put his wife 'first' (Getty/AFP)
Football

Sir Alex Ferguson: I retired because my wife needed me

Britons won't talk about one thing, and it's not sex
Science

Talking about money is Britain's last taboo

St Louis, Missouri
Americas

These are the 10 most affordable cities to live in the US

China has been building artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea. File photo
Asia

US and China have escalating war of words over territory dispute

Ahmed Mohamed was arrested after his homemade clock was mistaken for a bomb
Americas

Texas police knew Ahmed Mohamed didn't have a bomb

Ahmed Mohamed was arrested after his homemade clock was mistaken for a bomb
Americas

Texas police knew Ahmed Mohamed didn't have a bomb

Public Health England has found 15 cases of the super resistant STD strain
Health News

Gonorrhoea outbreak: Alert triggered over drug-resistant strain

Russia may censor Wikipedia
Tech

Russia threatens to block Wikipedia over cannabis page

Tech

Ashley Madison hack: 6 charts that show who uses the infidelity

Credit: Hyperloop Transporation Technologies
Tech

Hyperloop will begin testing its futuristic tube transport in 2016

Spotify apologises
Tech

Spotify says sorry for its 'creepy' new privacy policy

Tech

Spotify says sorry for its 'creepy' new privacy policy

Spotify apologises
The Ashley Madison website displayed on a smartphone (Reuters)
Tech

Ashley Madison: Why so many powerful people cheat

This won't happen next month, says Nasa
Science

Nasa releases statement over rumours that asteroid will destroy Earth

The Ashley Madison website
Tech

Ashley Madison hack: Second massive data dump includes founder's

Europe

TTIP controversy: Secret trade deal can only be read in secure

Europe

TTIP controversy: Secret trade deal can only be read in secure

Europe

TTIP controversy: Secret trade deal can only be read in secure

Mancunian Way (Geograph)
Home News

Manchester: Giant sinkhole appears in middle of busy road

Fidel Castro in August 2015 (AFP/Getty Images)
Americas

Fidel Castro celebrates 89th birthday with leftist buddies - and tells

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras leaving at the end of an Eurozone summit at the European Council headquarters in Brussels
Business News

Eurozone GDP: Greece is growing faster than Germany

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras checks his watch as he delivers his speech at the end of a night parliamentary session in Athens, Greece, August 14, 2015 (REUTERS/Christian Hartmann)
Business News

Greece bailout: Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faces vote of confidence

Japan PM Shinzo Abe at news conference marking the 70th anniversary of World War II end (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
Asia

Shinzo Abe: 'Japan inflicted immeasurable damage and suffering in

Japan PM Shinzo Abe at news conference marking the 70th anniversary of World War II end (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
Asia

Shinzo Abe: 'Japan inflicted immeasurable damage and suffering in

Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived the US atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 (AFP/Getty)
Asia

Nagasaki anniversary: Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the man who survived both

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina speaks during a pre-debate forum at the Quicken Loans Arena, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015, in Cleveland. Seven of the candidates have not qualified for the primetime debate. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Americas

Carly Fiorina targets Trump over 'offensive' Megyn Kelly comments

Runners at the start of the Virgin Money London Marathon, London
Home News

Doping crisis: London Marathon winners called into question

Google and MIT have invented reflection-free pictures
Tech

Google and MIT combine to develop reflection-free window photos

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders waits to speak after the Seattle stage (Alan Berner/The Seattle Times via AP)
US politics

Bernie Sanders: Democratic presidential candidate kicked off the stage

A NASA Earth Observatory image released December 5, 2012 shows Britain, Ireland and part of Western Europe as it appeared on the night of March 27, 2012
Tech

Open data: what is it and why are people scared?

The number of beehives has declined by 73 per cent, falling from a million hives in 1900 to just 270,000 in 2015 (Andrew Fox)
News

Pesticide experts silenced by UK Government as it looks to bring back

Police close to the scene where a man was stabbed to death by another motorist in Findon
Crime

Elderly man knifed to death in 'road rage' incident

Don Lock
Crime

Sussex stabbing: Grandson of Don Lock makes plea on Facebook – 'this

The number of beehives has declined by 73 per cent, falling from a million hives in 1900 to just 270,000 in 2015 (Andrew Fox)
News

Pesticide experts silenced by UK Government as it looks to bring back

Police close to the scene where a man was stabbed to death by another motorist in Findon
Crime

Elderly man knifed to death in 'road rage' incident

Don Lock
Crime

Sussex stabbing: Grandson of Don Lock makes plea on Facebook – 'this

Archaeologists from Bournemouth University have discovered what could be Britain's oldest town (Bournemouth University)
Home News

Duropolis: The newly discovered Iron Age settlement that may be

Percy Pig is moving aisle (M&S)
News

Marks & Spencer to stop selling Percy Pigs at the till following sugar

The new rules of Reddit have been announced (Corbis)
Tech

Welcome to the new Reddit – where rape is banned, but racism isn't

The new rules of Reddit have been announced (Corbis)
Tech

Welcome to the new Reddit – where rape is banned, but racism isn't

The Royal Air Force and Nazi German forces clashed in the skies above Britain in 1940 (Wikimedia)
Home News

Battle of Britain 75th anniversary: The staggering numbers behind war

The Titanic, which sank during her maiden voyage in 1912
Home News

Long-lost plaque from the Titanic turns up in Spain after more than a

Pope Francis delivers a speech during the Second World Meeting of the Popular Movements in Santa Cruz, Bolivia (Getty/AFP)
Americas

Pope Francis apologises for Catholic crimes against indigenous peoples

American Samoa is not yet sure whether the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling applies (Wikimedia)
Americas

Same-sex marriage: American Samoa may be the only territory in the US

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