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• IMF Slashes UK Growth Forecasts, Fears of Double-dip Recession Mount

  

  Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. Photo credit: M. Holland In yet more grim economic news for the UK, the International Monetary Fund has slashed its... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Travellers Win Eviction Reprieve, Battle for Dale Farm Intensifies

  

  Dale Farm settlement, Essex. Photo credit: The Advocacy Project Residents of Dale Farm in Essex, one of Europe’s largest illegal travellers’ sites, have won a... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Naked Scarlett Johansson Picturegate Gets the Taiwanese Animation Treatment

  

  Pictures allegedly showing a naked Scarlett Johansson are all over the internet. There's now even a Taiwanese animation mulling the leak. Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2011 CELEB, CURRENT, ENTERTAINMENT, SOCIETY, VIRAL

• Google Wallet: Will Phones Replace Wallets?

  

  Is the bulging wallet soon to be a thing of the past? Photo credit: Shareski Google wants to turn your mobile phone into a wallet. Well, that’s the plan with... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY, TECH

• Murdoch’s Dowler Settlement: Atonement Or Blood Money?

  

  Rupert Murdoch is readying a whopping compensation payout to the family of murdered schoolgirl Millie Dowler, whose phone was hacked by a private investigator... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Is Chelsea Striker Torres’ Miss the Worst of All Time?

  

  Fernando Torres signs autographs for fans. Photo credit: Comcinco Was Fernando Torres’ miss the worst of all time? That is the question being asked today as... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Rooney is Hot, Arsenal is Not; What We Know Already Know About the Premiership

  

  Wayne Rooney. Photo credit: Toksuede The Barclay’s Premier League 2011/2012 season may be only five games old but already clear indicators of how the season is... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• In the Shadow of Krupp: Dealing with a Troubled Family Legacy

  

  My grandfather’s funeral, Villa Hügel in Essen, 1940. ‘Are you a Nazi?’ It is 1986. I am nine years old, standing underneath the big conker tree outside the... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Demand for Sperm Donated by Redheads: Miniscule (outside Ireland)

  

  Ginger-haired baby. Photo credit: .melanie The world’s largest sperm bank is turning away redhead sperm donors because demand for the progeny is so low. Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2011 CURRENT, FAMILY, PARENTING

• Russian Oligarch Alexander Lebedev Punches Rival on TV, Tears Tight Jeans

  

  Newspaper baron Alexander Lebedev has thumped a rival billionaire on a Russian TV show. And he doesn't regret it. Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY, VIRAL

• Mixed Martial Arts Movie Warrior Packs a Mean Punch

  

  Tom Hardy. Photo credit: Craig Grobler Both mean, meaty and, according to The New York Times critic A. O. Scott, possessing surprising “poetry and finesse”,... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2011 CURRENT, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Critics Laud Laura Marling’s A Creature I Don’t Know as a Modern Masterpiece

  

  Laura Marling. Photo credit: Guus Krol British singer-songwriter Laura Marling has been described as a precocious talent many times in the three years since... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Post-bin Laden, is Al Qaeda on the Verge of Collapse?

  

  Many leaders are dead, yet group is still active in areas Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Planet with Two Suns Discovered; Researchers Nickname It “Tatooine”

  

  Scientists have announced the discovery of a new planet, Kepler 16-b, which has two suns. Is this a new Tatooine, Luke Skywalker's home planet in Star Wars? Or... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2011 ASTRONOMY, CURRENT, SCIENCE, SOCIETY

• Libya: Cameron and Sarkozy Triumphant; but is It Over Yet?

  

  David Cameron at Libya talks in March. What does the future hold now? Photocredit Foreign and Commonwealth Office http://www.flickr. Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Kweku Adoboli: What Do We Know About UBS’s Alleged ‘rogue Trader?’

  

  UBS shocked the world yesterday with an announcement that an unauthorised trade would cost them $2 billion. So just who is Kweku Adoboli, the man arrested by... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Kweku Adoboli: What Do We Know About UBS’s “rogue Trader”?

  

  Kweku Adoboli, suspect in the rogue trade at UBS. Photo credit: Facebook Swiss bank UBS startled the world yesterday when it announced that an unauthorised trad... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Dark Chocolate is as Good for You as a Gym Session (if You Are a Mouse)

  

  Studies in mice have found that dark chocolate can "offset muscle aging." Mice are not humans but Cadburys and co are already excited by the findings. Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2011 CURRENT, HEALTH, SOCIETY

• Naked Scarlett Johansson Pictures Leak Online, Are Celebrities the Hacker’s New...

  

  Who's behind the hack of Scarlett Johansson's iPhone? Could it be Anonymous-affiliated Hollywood Leaks? Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2011 CELEB, CURRENT, ENTERTAINMENT, SOCIETY, TECH

• Contagion: Could a Real-life Flu Pandemic Kill Us All?

  

  Hollywood bio-terror Contagion stars Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, and Laurence Fishburne Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2011 CURRENT, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, SOCIETY