A leading theoretical physicist has tapped the best scientific brains of the age to provide a startling vision of the future. Roger Highfield reports
"Record oil prices and multi-year lows for the dollar continue to create the perfect bullish recipe for gold as the yellow metal pushed to within 5.0 dollars of the 800 dollar an ounce level," said James Moore, an analyst at TheBullionDesk.com.
One of the most devout and insular countries in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia has emerged from being an underdeveloped desert kingdom to become one of the wealthiest nations in the region thanks to vast oil resources.
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has accused Britain of not doing enough to fight international terrorism, which he says could take 20 or 30 years to beat.
Both the British and American governments got just about everything wrong in their assumptions about what would follow the fall of Saddam, reports John Ware in the second of two articles linked to a new TV series.
As California battles wind-whipped wildfires, vast areas of the United States are struggling with an epic drought that has millions of people fearing their taps could run dry.
In the House of Commons yesterday Frank Dobson MP raised the "injustice" done to one of his constituents, Joseph Mendy, under the provisions of the European Arrest Warrant.
The front page of the Economist carries the headline "Give Europe a say", with the main leader arguing "Whatever your views on the treaty, this is a farce - and it has consequences stretching far beyond Europe
Giscard d'Estaing: All the tools of the Constitution are in the Lisbon Treaty, but in a different order in the tool box
MANILA: Clan violence has contributed greatly to bloodshed in the southern Philippines, with government forces and Islamic separatists often drawn into the violence unnecessarily, complicating the decade-long search for peace there, a new study shows.
The UK Foreign Office has approved the entry of dozens of Iranians to British universities to study advanced nuclear physics and other subjects which could be applied to the creation weapons of mass destruction, The Sunday Times reported Sunday.
THE biggest study into organic food has found that it is more nutritious than ordinary produce and may help to lengthen people's lives.
Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, on Friday compared US plans to build a missile defence shield near Russia's borders to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
WASHINGTON - The military shot down a Scud-type missile in another successful test of a new technology meant to knock down ballistic missiles in their final minute of flight, the Missile Defense Agency said Saturday.
Three volcanos in Indonesia, including the one known as the "Child of Krakatau", are now under close watch following heightened activity, a senior volcano official said on Saturday.