Who Owns Sex.com ?

"In a few weeks’ time a thickset middle-aged man with a ready smile and the gift of the gab will walk into a courtroom in San Jose, capital of California’s “silicon valley” and try to plead poverty before the judge. The lawyers he will be facing will not believe him,...

Fake Sugar, Real Cancer

Even in realistic "human-sized" doses (not a rat eating six tons of the stuff), aspartame has been proven carcinogenic. Aspartame is found in products ranging from soda pop to medicine tablets; this discovery raises important questions of trust in a profit-driven food...

Credit Card Clone Scam Hits British Motorists

The second massive credit card scam in the news today. Speculation arose that the Tamil Tigers were somehow involved, but there is no proof of that at this point."Thousands of motorists who use a bank card to buy petrol are thought to have lost millions of pounds in an...

Taliban making millions from opium in Afghanistan

When the Taliban ordered Afghanistan's fields cleared of opium poppies seven years ago because of Islam's ban on drugs, fearful farmers complied en masse. Today, officials say the militia nets tens of millions by forcing farmers to plant poppies and taxing the harvest,...