Israeli ministers OK release of 200 Palestinians

Israel has agreed to release 200 Palestinian prisoners. The approval by a ministerial commission is the next step in the process of releasing the prisoners. The move is a festure of faith in Palestianian president Mahmoud Abbas. "An Israeli ministerial commission on Monday...

MI5 seeks gay spies in attempt to expand its recruiting base

M15, the British equivalent of the CIA, has instituted a new policy of actively seeking gay men and women as new recruits. The agency says its part of a wider mission to attract more diverse recruits from throughout society rather than just selecting people from Oxford or...

Republican lawmakers kill California budget proposal

The California state assembley had a rare Sunday night session last night, with the state's republicans rejecting a Democratic plan to fix the state's budget shortfall by raising taxes on wealthy citizens and corporations."Assembly Republicans on Sunday blocked a proposed...

Two Nebraska wrestlers kicked off team over nude Internet photos

"LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Two Nebraska wrestlers, including one who won an NCAA championship in 2007, have been dismissed from the team after posing naked for videos and photographs on an Internet pornography site. Paul Donahoe and Kenny Jordan were let go Tuesday, three days...

Why The Slow-Paced World Could Make It Difficult To Catch A Ball

This is a new research that reveals about the way humans perceive fast moving, incoming objects-such as tennis or cricket balls."The new research studies why the human brain has difficulty perceiving fast moving objects coming from straight ahead; something that should be a...

Oil jumps USD 5 after report of US Gas stocks falling

Crude oil prices again soared up after remaining cool for sometime. The news of US Gas stock shortage fulled the price hike. A latest report says that US gasoline supplies fell by 3.5 million barrels last week.  US crude stockpiles also fell by 100,000 barrels last week,...

Should species be moved to save them?

"WASHINGTON: With climate change increasingly threatening the survival of plants and animals, scientists say it may become necessary to move some species to save them. Dubbed assisted colonization or assisted migration, the idea is to decide how severe the threat is to...

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...

Stephen Hawking may Leave Britain, Settle in Canada

Stephen Hawking, the famous theoretical physicist whose work in quantum mechanics and black hole theory, amongst other things, is considering moving to Canada. The news comes after Hawking lashed out at the British government for $160 million worth of cuts in science funding...