For all the nonsense about talks and engagement with Iran, nothing has changed and if anything, the Islamic Republic is upping the ante. The Iranians are still barring UN inspectors from their nuclear sites in spite of three days of talks with Western diplomats The reaction of the West , of course, is to wait to see what happens at more talks scheduled later in the month - the same pattern the Ira...

Facebook, Google, Twitter and other social networking sites will support European citizens’ initiatives that will be launched starting 1 April, corporate representatives said during a conference in Brussels last week. More »

Rights campaigners have criticised plans to ask search engines to demote illegal sites in order to fight piracy.

Google and Wikipedia among groups to customise or take down home pages in opposition to SOPA

It's not well known, but the country we buy the biggest share of our imported oil from isn't in the Middle East,but our neighbor Canada. In order to process it cheaper and easier, Canada and US oil companies wanted to construct a pipeline between the drilling sites in Alberta, Canada and American refineries known as the Keystone Pipeline. Aside from providing thousands of construction jo...

As Iran holds its line, how much longer can Israel and the US wait before they attack the country’s nuclear sites?

Yesterday’s announcement about High Speed 2 was given more significance by the media than perhaps it deserved. The route of the track from Birmingham to Leeds and Manchester, and the sites for the stations on the northern lines, remains to be finalised. If all goes according to plan the first passangers could travel on the

Attempts to reform planning rules "perversely misunderstand" the value of the country's rural and urban historic sites, according of the head of the UK's biggest heritage lobby group.

Jim Murphy MP, Labour’s Shadow Defence Secretary, following the admission from Defence Minister Andrew Robathan that the MoD is no longer protecting MoD Police numbers at Faslane and Coulport, said:

In light of the mysterious explosions at various Iranian nuclear facilities and weapons sites, is that country simply the victim of worker incompetence or the victim of outside forces? "... The sites in Iran that have been damaged would appear to be significant targets. The nuclear facilities in Isfahan are involved in converting yellowcake into uranium hexafluoride gas, a key step in producing en...