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By politics.co.uk staff
August 2011's riots across English cities could be repeated in the future, police fear.
Interviews with officers conducted by the LSE and Guardian found that most expected more rioting within the next 12 months.
Magistrates imposed harsh sentences on many of those convicted of looting and rio... |
There are a few basic rules in museums. The first: don't touch the art. The second: don't take selfies while touching the art.
At a museum in Milan, Italy, a student reportedly broke that second rule: he climbed on a statue dating back to the early 19th century to take a selfie and caused the statue's left leg to fall... |
Amanda Warren
Activist Post
Any news story that is able to throw in the highly marketable “zombie” term won’t miss the chance. In this case it might actually apply – you decide.
Researchers in Albuquerque NM have come up with an alchemy that breathes more power into dead mammal cells. These super undead cells can su... |
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas formally announced Friday that the Palestinians will ask the U.N. Security Council next week to approve full membership of a Palestinian state in the United Nations.
The announcement, in a speech to top Palestinian officials at Abbas’s office in Ramallah, appeared to seal ... |
Taking Back the Street
» The fact that street space is about more than just automobile movement has yet to be recognized by a big swath of the population.
The recent furor over the installation of bike lanes along Brooklyn’s Prospect Park West is indicative of the myopic perspective too many people continue to hold o... |
Image copyright NASA/ESA/R.ELLIS/HUDF12 Image caption Objects like UDFj-39546284 are at the limit of the Hubble telescope's vision
Hubble astronomers have observed deeper into space than ever before.
In doing so, they have identified six new galaxies of stars that formed just a few hundred million years after the Big... |
Have you ever had a boss so ill-suited for leadership that you almost felt sorry for him? Kenyan Hezekiah Ochuka was one of those kinds of guys -- inept to the point where you begin wondering if his whole deal was performance art.
Let's start with his military background. Ochuka was a senior private in the Kenyan Air ... |
Though spontaneous fire seems like it would be a rare natural phenomenon, they are actually quite common both above and below the ground. Usually fueled by underground coal, gas, or oil seeping to the surface, some of these “eternal flames” have been burning continuously for centuries — and yet remain oddly obscure.
5... |
The U.S. government is certainly NOT of the people, NOT by the people, and NOT for the people. In the vernacular of the day, what do we have? Government of the People, by the People, for the People. NOT.
I submit that the people or peoples that inhabit a certain portion of North America known as America did not overth... |
Internet connectivity and mobile communications throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been fully restored, but the country’s political turmoil is far from over.
The government had moved to block communications in an attempt to quell public protests sparked by President Joseph Kabila’s political maneuv... |
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia’s health ministry on Saturday defended its decision to host a contest on how to “prevent” homosexuality and transgenderism, saying the competition was aimed at helping teens make better health decisions.
The Thomson Reuters Foundation reported on Friday activists had criticised the co... |
A giant windowless brick shell traversed only by an old, warped fire escape juts up some 40ft directly above the store front, a giant black box. I learned from people in the neighborhood that this was once the old Hollywood Theatre which shut down in 1959, but what was more surprising was when I found out it wasn't jus... |
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities have passed clothing that belonged to some of the 43 students missing from rural teachers’ college to a lab in Austria for genetic testing.
The attorney general’s office said in a statement Tuesday that it sent some 53 items to the University of Innsbruck almost a year after the stude... |
WASHINGTON - A US-Iranian engineer was arrested at Newark International Airport while attempting to smuggle secret documents to Iran – among them the blueprint for the coveted F-35 multi-role fighter jet, which Israel is set to receive in 2016.
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Mozaffar Khazaee, a former US def... |
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has violated judicial ethics through numerous speeches where he suggests the U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage shouldn't be followed, the Southern Poverty Law Center said today.
For the second time this year, Montgomery-based SPLC has supplemented its complaint agai... |
Previously in series: Selecting Rationalist Groups
Followup to: Rationality is Systematized Winning, Extenuating Circumstances
Why emphasize the connection between rationality and winning? Well... that is what decision theory is for. But also to place a Go stone to block becoming a whining-based community.
Let's be ... |
Whether Marvin Bagley will actually be cleared to play at Duke this season remains undetermined. But, just for fun, let's assume the projected No. 1 pick of the 2018 NBA Draft is in uniform and ready to go when the season starts. How will he be?
Great?
Good?
Or just a work-in-progress -- a better prospect than playe... |
Is it capitulation when Mexico, which faces an existential threat from drug cartels, decides to decriminalize drugs?
Is it cynicism when California, which faces a budget crisis, considers legalizing and taxing marijuana?
Quips are easy. But the problems are complex, and we are about to get a look at the consequences,... |
By Phil McNulty
Our man with England
Our assessment of every England player's performance at Euro 2004. Sven-Goran Eriksson - 6: Mixed tournament for England's coach. Was proved right about the selection of Ledley King ahead of Jamie Carragher against France, but did he substitute Wayne Rooney too soon in that game? ... |
The United States has begun withdrawing troops from Iraq ahead of a major August pullout. A contingent left July 13, cutting short their normal 12-month tour of duty.
The August withdrawal is billed as ending the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, fulfilling a vow President Obama made shortly after taking office last year. ... |
Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,
London has swept about you this score years
And bright ships left you this or that in fee:
Ideas, old gossip, oddments of all things,
Strange spars of knowledge and dimmed wares of price.
… doesn’t mean that men literally pay her. Sure, she’s someone stuck in a time when she... |
Pictures of “Technical Preplan on Blocking Bitcoin overseas Transaction” were circulated in Wechat group and later posted on weibo around 18pm 16 September. The document describes the preplan of blocking bitcoin exchanges and Bitcoin blockchain data-syncing, along with a list of overseas exchanges. The news caused pani... |
"It was a terrible accident," recalls Alex Kovkov during a DW interview. The car crash he is referring to left him so badly injured that he could hardly say his name, but the hospital employees refused him treatment. Nobody even offered him a glass of water.
While this scenario may sound like a bad dream, for the 33-y... |
As Ancelotti takes his side to Denmark for Tuesday’s first leg of their last-16 tie, he is pondering his position at a club whose fortunes have taken a turn for the worst since November.
No-one is certain whether it was the sacking of his assistant, Ray Wilkins, or the loss of form and fitness of a clutch of key playe... |
Amidst the sea of crossovers and SUVs that flooded the show floor at this year’s New York Auto Show, the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon stood alone and self-assured in its 840-horsepower drag strip-slaying abilities. Voices from all across the automotive media industry sang praises. All except one.
Automotive News, a... |
PETA UK Launches Great Vegan Bake Off
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Tonight marks the start of the sixth series of the cult UK baking show the “Great British Bake Off,” in which amateur bakers from aroun... |
Wii U still hasn’t received an official release date or price from Nintendo, but a new industry source has stepped forward and hurled its hat in the ring. Pinches of salt at the ready, here we go.
Video Product Distributors – the same company that supplies stock to Amazon and Blockbuster – has posted up SKU, price and... |
PlayStation Store Global Update – March 13, 2012
Each week Sony brings PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable owners new content, add-ons, games and more. PlayStation LifeStyle catalogs the PlayStation Store updates for the major regions across the globe. Check back every Tuesday and Wednesday to keep up to date with ... |
A bottle of the liquid sedative Pentobarbital Sodium. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Texas, the state with the highest execution rate in the country, is running out of a sedative used for lethal injections for the second time in 13 months, a state official said on Thursday.
Texas Department of Criminal Ju... |
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