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Be nice. Evolution will punish you if you’re mean and selfish, says study
Friday 02 August 2013
Selfish people have short-term advantage, but co-operation and communication win out in the long term
Postal workers to ballot for strike
Thursday 01 August 2013
The Government faces a major challenge to its controversial plans to privatise the Royal Mail after postal workers’ leaders decided to go ahead with a national strike ballot.
NSA uses XKeyscore program which tracks 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
Thursday 01 August 2013
The program can use almost any identifying information to track the online behaviour of a target
Doreen Lawrence and Brian Paddick among 30 new peers in House of Lords
Thursday 01 August 2013
Thirty new members of the House of Lords have been announced by Downing Street, 24 of whom will sit for the Coalition parties.
Government turns up the heat on cold callers as phone nuisances face crackdown
Tuesday 30 July 2013
Ministers plan to enable watchdogs to investigate 'annoying' communications as well as those that cause distress
Twitter threats: Man arrested over rape-threat tweets against campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez
Sunday 28 July 2013
Criado-Perez said she received 'about 50 abusive tweets an hour for about 12 hours'
Inquest system overhaul comes into force under leadership of first Chief Coroner
Thursday 25 July 2013
Government says investigations into unusual deaths ‘operated in a bubble’ without national guidance
Swisscom chief executive Carsten Schloter who committed ‘suicide’ could not stop looking at his smartphone
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Stressed by work and life, Swisscom CEO failed to follow advice about switching off
MoD awards £45m battlefield radios contract
Wednesday 24 July 2013
A new multimillion-pound contract for the maintenance of British troops' battlefield radios will secure hundreds of defence jobs across the country, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced.
Apathy over pensions ‘will lead to huge future bills’
Monday 22 July 2013
Britain is at a pension crossroads which could leave businesses facing a massive bill in the future.
Vince Cable blocks sale of military and intelligence equipment to Egypt as protest death toll mounts
Friday 19 July 2013
Five export licences suspended over fears weapons are being used for internal suppression against its people
NSA to tighten security in wake of Edward Snowden leaks
Friday 19 July 2013
Defence officials call revelations a 'failure to defend our own networks' and introduce new rules for contractors
Judges stumped over couple’s bid to marry in Church of Scientology
Thursday 18 July 2013
Supreme Court Judges were unable to decide whether services in the Church of Scientology - the cult of choice for Tom Cruise and other Hollywood celebrities - should be considered religious worship.
MPs clear GCHQ use of US Prism system as legal
Wednesday 17 July 2013
But they will review legislation regarding effect of surveillance on privacy and human rights
- 1 Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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