UK homes are smallest in Europe

UK is facing an extreme space crunch and now houses are becoming smaller and smaller. London has the smallest house in the Europe and to end this woes London Mayor Boris Johnson has threatned to make a law about minimum space standards on all council flat houses. The Mayor...

Kayakers arrive in NZ after 62 days

"Two adventurers who spent two months paddling across the Tasman Sea in a kayak arrived in New Zealand today, becoming the first people to kayak there from Australia. Several thousand people crowded the shore at Ngamotu Beach, near New Plymouth on New Zealand's west coast, to...

Docile by Design?

"Moves to clone and genetically modify farm livestock have opened the door to the creation of "Farmyard Freaks", experts have warned. News that the daughter of a US clone cow has been born on a British farm has moved the issue from science fiction to consumer reality. A...

Japan: Wacky, weird or wonderful?

"Last month, Kazuhide Uekusa, one of Japan's most celebrated economists, was arrested on the charge of groping a schoolgirl on a Tokyo subway train: it was the third time in eight years he'd been caught in cases involving pretty young girls in short skirts. The high-profile...