Britannia to Merge with Co-Operative Financial Services Talks

BRITANNIA is Britain's second largest building Society and CFS includes the Co-Operative Bank plc, the internet bank Smile and Co-Operative Insurance.  The merger would be "part of a growth plan,"...

Aussie James McGrath targeted in Maldives poll

"THE first free election in the history of the Maldives might or might not topple Asia's longest-serving dictator, but it has already thrust Australian political strategist James McGrath back into the spotlight, a...

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Drug Videos: More Dangerous than Online Predators

John Walters, the director of the White House war on drugs, said on Monday that Internet videos that show people getting high pose a dangerous threat to teenagers by encouraging them to use drugs and alcohol. ...

Why are so many people still smoking?

Despite UK's ban on smoking in public places and good education programmes in place in schools that see all children by age 11 already cued up on the health risks of smoking 9 miilion British people still smoke....

When Jesus Returns We Will Have Peace

As a muslim I am taught that the world will almost certainly not know peace untill the saviour jesus of nazereth is reborn. That doesn't mean we shouldn't work for peace...

Multiple Sclerosis & Cannabis - Why the Silence?

"Multiple Sclerosis & Cannabis - Why the Silence? ...

Cruel mob in 'jump' taunts to death plunge teen

In a truly shocking reflection of the modern society we have created, a teenager in the UK jumped to his death after being taunted and urged to jump by the crowd gathered below."A suicidal teenager plunged 60ft to his death from a multi-storey car-park after a baying crowd of...

Food & energy security: Commonwealth states urged to cut defence expenditure

"The Commonwealth countries of Asia should reduce the expenditure on defence and armaments and use the resources thus saved for the uplift of the poor who are the worst affected by the rise in prices of food and energy, the civil society organisations of Commonwealth states...

Canada's Political Parties Lay Out Their Party Platform for Fighting Crime!

Barry Artiste Op/Ed As I previously mentioned in my other story today on Child prostitution in Canada http://www.nowpublic.com/world/child-prostitution-exposing-canadas-dirty-dark-secret All Political Parties seem to...

Anchovies join cod on threatened fish list

This may be surprising to some people, but the small anchovie fish have now joined other endangered species such as cod, on the threatened fish species list.The Marine Conservation Society in the UK published their...

Gang Stalking.

Gang Stalking is a systemic form of control, which seeks to control every aspect of a Targeted Individuals life. Gang Stalking has many similarities to workplace mobbing, but takes place outside in the community. It...

Kauhajoki: Finnish Childcare Structure to be Over Hauled

THE tragedy at Kauhajoki, following on so closely to that at Jokela, has caused Finnish authorites to look more closely at country's childcare structure.   A report just two months ago by the Mannerhein Child...

"Brilliance Shock" Kills IITian student

Many brilliant students from small towns and middle class families are selected for elite institutes like IIT & IIM. But they aren't able to adjust in social,economic and cultural  environmet of the big...

Walking the walk: gait infers sexual history

Sexologists (where do you go to school for that?) can now determine your sexual history just by watching you walk.  In the Journal of Sexual Medicine, researcher Stuart Brody of the University of West Scotland...

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