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Independent Jan 17 Ancient weather records, including details gleaned from monks' diaries, are helping scientists work out how and why climates have changed over the past 500 years. Researchers found the historic data, from the likes of weather station archives and harvest records...

Telegraph Jan 17 A cat has been summoned to do jury service, even after his owners told the court he was "unable to speak and understand English". Anna Esposito, wrote to Suffolk Court in Boston, US, to explain that a mistake had been made, but a jury commissioner replied saying the...

BBC News Jan 17 Researchers in the United States say they have uncovered tentative evidence of a genetic component to friendship. Using data from two independent studies, they found carriers of one gene associated with alcoholism tended to stick together. However, people with another...

BBC News Jan 17 The husband of US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in an attack in Tucson, Arizona, says she is making good progress. Mark Kelly told US network ABC his wife had insisted on giving him a neck massage from her hospital bed. On Sunday, hospital...

Now before anyone lynches me :eek: ........this was a survey done by 47 UK specialists, with the analysis written by Iwan Morgan (Director of the United States Presidency Centre) I thought you might find it interesting or just good for a laugh :p A New Survey of US Presidents...

BBC News Jan 17 Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak - a key minister of the coalition government - is resigning from the Labour party to form his own faction, Labor officials say. Mr Barak is leading a breakaway group including four other Labor parliamentarians, reports say. It remains...

The characteristic broad foreheads and large noses of Neanderthals did not give them any special advantage in the cold arctic conditions of the last ice age, according to new research that has raised new questions about the habitats our prehistoric relatives lived in and why they died out...

BBC News Jan 16 Chinese President Hu Jintao has said the international currency system dominated by the US dollar is a "product of the past". Mr Hu also said China was taking steps to replace it with the yuan, its own currency, but acknowledged that would be a "fairly long process"...

AP Jan 16 WASHINGTON – As lawmakers shaken by the shooting of a colleague return to the health care debate, an Associated Press-GfK poll finds raw feelings over President Barack Obama's overhaul have subsided. Ahead of a vote on repeal in the GOP-led House this week, strong opposition to...

Independent In a dramatic breakthrough that could affect millions of lives, scientists have been able to show for the first time that the body's immune defences can destroy the common cold virus after it has actually invaded the inner sanctum of a human cell, a feat that was believed until...

Independent Jan 17 Fifty years ago, President Eisenhower warned of the danger of the 'military-industrial complex'. The huge budget and reach of America's modern defence industry has proved him correct, says Rupert Cornwell If you doubt, half a century on, that Dwight Eisenhower had it...

Guardian Jan 16 Spain is insisting that the United States removes tens of thousands of cubic metres of earth still contaminated by plutonium from unexploded US air force nuclear bombs that accidentally fell in the 1960s. Spain sent a diplomatic note to the Obama administration shortly...

Mercy killing & Assisted suides After reading some really tragic situations where people felt that the only option was to end the life of their spouse, child or parent, fully knowing that they would be arrested, one has to ask: Is the action of mercy killing the crime or being arrested for...

Independent The nation already has its soccer moms, hockey moms, and even Sarah Palin's merry band of Mamma Grizzlies. But a new brand of pushy parent is suddenly the talk of Middle America: the no-nonsense "Tiger Mother." Amy Chua, a little-known law professor at Yale University, coined...

Independent Humans have proven themselves remarkably adept at learning to do what other animals can do naturally. We have taught ourselves to fly like birds, climb like monkeys and burrow like moles. But the one animal that has always proven beyond our reach is the fish. The invention...

Independent Blame Stella Liebeck. It was her ridiculous lawsuit against McDonald's that started the avalanche. Back in 1992, 79-year-old Stella spilled a cup of McDonald's coffee on her lap and burned herself. Everyone laughed when she declared she was suing McDonald's, until a jury awarded...

The world's most haunted places :eek: First up is ........ :p The White House, Washington, D.C. By Stephen Wagner That's right, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. is not only home to the current President of the United States, it also is home of several former...

Guardian Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 January 2011 19.35 GMT EPA vetoes Spruce Number One mine project in West Virginia because it would pose 'unacceptable' threat to surrounding area The Obama administration has vetoed one of the...

BBC News Jan 15 Two US soldiers have been killed when an Iraqi soldier opened fire on them during a training exercise in northern Iraq, US and Iraqi officials say. The officials - speaking on condition of anonymity - said the incident happened at al-Ghazlani training camp in the city of...

AP Jan 15 Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — Women should finally be allowed to serve fully in combat, a military advisory panel said Friday in a report seeking to dismantle the last major area of discrimination in the armed forces. The call by a commission of current and retired...