President Bush acknowledged today that the war in Iraq has been more difficult than he anticipated, but insisted that it could still be won. He said the “extremists and radicals†behind the bombing and attacks in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq “can’t run us out of the Middle East.â€
Concern about the safety of wireless networks is mounting, with people blaming everything from headaches to cancer on the technology
It started as a low murmur, and has now risen to a persistent hum. Thanks partly to a lively correspondence in the pages of The Times, the debate about the safety of wireless networks is gathering […]
President Bush’s controversial plans to send tens of thousands more US troops to Iraq are being resisted by leading figures at the Pentagon.The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US military’s most senior generals, are concerned that such a short-term surge in the US presence would further fuel the fighting by armed factions in Iraq rather […]
Research has always suggested that the infected children contracted HIV because of poor hygiene and sterilisation practices at al-Fateh hospital which predated the arrival of the health workers in Libya.
It’s an up and down sort of day for Britney Spears. On the one hand, animal lovers apparently hate her. On the other, Mel Gibson has sympathy for her.
Is that up and down then? Or just down and down?
A second man is being questioned over the murders of five prostitutes in Ipswich, in a move police sources described as “significant”.
The 48-year-old man - named locally as Steve Wright - was arrested at his home in the centre of Ipswich near the red light district early this morning.
Three new people have tested positive for low levels of the radioactive element that killed the Russian former spy Alexander Litvinenko.Tests on two members of staff at the Millennium Hotel in Mayfair and on one at the Sheraton Hotel in Park Lane have shown exposure to polonium-210, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) said.It brings the […]
Fierce gunbattles raged in the streets of Gaza City today between forces of the rival Hamas and Fatah movements, killing at least four people in renewed factional violence that left a shaky truce in tatters. At least 18 people were wounded, including five schoolchildren hit by […]
The solid-state fridge could halve your energy bills and help to save the environment
Do you like fridge magnets? A new technology being developed by British scientists could put an even bigger one inside your refrigerator. Once Karl Sandeman, a physicist at Cambridge University, has helped resolve the practical issues, the cooling power of the 21st […]
The world’s biggest online auction company, eBay, is to shut down its website in China and will instead take a minority stake in a local venture, according to reports in China and the US last night.The decision represents a setback for the company and an admission that it has struggled to make inroads in the […]
