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Chris Huhne and ex-wife Vicky Pryce face jail as journalist denies helping to entrap former Lib Dem cabinet minister over speeding offence
Monday 11 March 2013
The journalist who helped expose former Liberal Democrat cabinet minister Chris Huhne for lying along with his ex-wife over a speeding offence insisted today she had not colluded in his entrapment.
Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies: Resistance to antibiotics risks health 'catastrophe' to rank with terrorism and climate change
Monday 11 March 2013
Britain's health system could slip back by 200 years unless the "catastrophic threat" of antibiotic resistance is successfully tackled, the Government's Chief Medical Officer warns today.
Resistance to antibiotics is 'ticking time bomb' - stark warning from Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies
Monday 11 March 2013
Britain's health system could slip back by 200 years unless the "catastrophic threat" of antibiotic resistance is successfully tackled, the Government's Chief Medical Officer warns today.
Canada cold on US bid to protect polar bears
Thursday 07 March 2013
Canada is home to around two-thirds of the estimated 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears in the world
Jarvis Cocker, Lionel Shriver and Claire Tomalin to headline Southbank's London Literature Festival
Tuesday 05 March 2013
Jarvis Cocker might seem an unlikely contender to headline a literature festival, but it seems the former Pulp frontman really does have a thirst for knowledge.
Arctic ice-melt will bring frosty relations as nations navigate across North Pole
Monday 04 March 2013
The loss if sea ice in the Arctic will allow ships to navigate freely across the North Pole by the middle of the century and could lead to unprecedented geo-political tensions between countries that have territorial claims in the region, scientists said.
'Like summer on steroids': Australia’s hottest ever year blamed on climate change, with 'really frightening' temperatures in store
Monday 04 March 2013
A climate “on steroids” was to blame for a summer of record-breaking heatwaves, severe bushfires, cyclones and floods, according to Australia’s leading climate change scientists.
Green fatigue sets in: the world cools on global warming
Thursday 28 February 2013
Worldwide concerns about climate change have dropped dramatically since 2009
The News Matrix: Thursday 28 February 2013
Thursday 28 February 2013
Insurgent attacks are not decreasing
Professor Keith Clayton: Pioneering environmental scientist
Tuesday 26 February 2013
In 1967 we didn't know that man-made chemicals could hole the stratospheric ozone layer. The term "global warming" had not been coined, and the link between climate change and human activities was not well-made. Some scientists thought a new ice age was approaching in the coming decades, not believing that polar and glacier ice would be melting at record rates, leading to unprecedented rates of rises in sea level.
Review: Macbeth starring James McAvoy, Trafalgar Studio 1, London
Saturday 23 February 2013
The X-Men actor impresses with a no-holds-barred performance set in a futuristic Scottish dystopia that won't please Alex Salmond
UN says fertiliser crisis is damaging the planet
Monday 18 February 2013
Mass application of nutrients causes pollution in some areas while under-use hampers food production in others
Editorial: A President at the very height of his power
Wednesday 13 February 2013
Barack Obama's window of opportunity will last until early summer 2014
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What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
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Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
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Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
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Lord of the Sings: Sir Christopher Lee, 91, to release heavy metal album
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Exclusive: Woolwich killings suspect Michael Adebolajo was inspired by cleric banned from UK after urging followers to behead enemies of Islam
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