We do not know what no one can deny: Stephen Champion’s Lanka War Stories

"Stephen Champion has produced two books in the past twenty-two years: Lanka 1986-1992 and Lanka War Stories. His images make it clear that we are going in circles. The past reproduces its patterns in the present and cycles its way into the future; a past whose tragedies our...

NASA Successfully Tests ‘Interplanetary Internet’

" Although the crew of the spacecraft Endeavour experienced a glitch in the first space walk when an astronaut accidentally let her tool bag float away, NASA had a lot to celebrate as it announced success with a high-tech space program. NASA, along with Vinton Cerf, a...

"Eye" in the sky offers Unprecedented Hi Res images

"GeoEye's New Satellite Offers Unprecedentedly Sharp Images""It's getting harder and harder to hide.The sharpest commercial imaging satellite ever launched is now orbiting the Earth, sweeping over the North Pole and under the South Pole every 98 minutes, collecting...

cows point to the north

"New weird news related to cows: Researchers discovered that cattle have a good sense of direction and tend to point in a northerly direction. It has long been observed that cows appear to have a talent for weather forecasting and are able to predict when rain is on the way,...

Burj Dubai

"This is the latest available in images from the Burj Dubai, already the tallest building in the world with just a year to go to completion. Nothing demonstrates the amazing ambition of this city better than this iconic building which is the centre piece of the new Downtown...

Vicar jailed over child porn crimes

The Reverend Richard Hart, who became notorious in the UK after 56,000 images of child pornography were discovered on his computer, has today started his prison sentence. On the same day, a charity has used the opportunity to warn that child pornography is currently growing...

Orbiting satellite to help count California rats

"Orbiting satellite to help count California rats" FRESNO, California (AP) -- Scientists plan to use satellite photos to count Giant Kangaroo Rats, the first-ever monitoring of an endangered species from outer space. ...

Parkinson drugs turned headmaster into paedophile

A headmaster with thousands of indecent pictures of children on his computer has been aquited after a judge ruled that the drugs he was taking to combat Parkinson's disease turned him into a paedophile."A former headmaster who amassed thousands of indecent images of children...

911 2.0: NYC's Multimedia Emergency Line

So maybe New York City's subway stations flood during a spring rain, and the streets smell like a wastebin, but the Big Apple's emergency hotline is next-level, becoming the first system to be able to process photo and video imagery from mobiel phone cameras."Tipsters in New...