Government relents and scraps fuel duty rise

The UK government has cancelled a planned 2p rise in fuel tax in light of the ever increasing petrol prices. However the timing to the decision, coming as it does shortly before the very important by-election in Glasgow East, has being deemed suspicious. Gordon Brown may be...

Hundreds of Shell tanker drivers strike over pay

Hundreds of UK tanker drivers began a four-day pay strike on Friday, affecting fuel delivery to nearly 10 percent of UK filling stations. This is just the latest challenge for an already hard-hit fuel industry, as protests have been taking place around the world. See...

Pete Doherty Caught On Movie Shooting Heroin

"Pete Doherty has been caught injecting heroin on film, just hours after claiming he was drugs free. The Babyshambles rocker is shown in the footage - shot on a mobile phone at his Wiltshire home on Friday - 'cooking up' the class A drug in a spoon before filling up a needle...

TECHNOLOGY-SRI LANKA: Leapfrogging Out of Poverty on IT

"TECHNOLOGY-SRI LANKA: Leapfrogging Out of Poverty on IT By Feizal Samath MAHAVILACHCHIYA, Oct 26 (IPS) - In a north-central village, deep inside Sri Lanka’s backwoods, a young man is glued to a computer screen, pushing a mouse and filling in figures. Isuru Senevirathna is...

Citizen Journalism: Filling the Void

"As each week goes by, it becomes more and more clear to me that Bloggers, Citizen Journalists, or whatever else you want to call them, are more than a fad - more than a niche - they’re actually becoming a strong force in the news media world."