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An American pilot has pleaded guilty to being over the alcohol limit as he prepared to take off from Heathrow Airport in London, England.

n As seemed to be the rule in those days, Shane MacGowan‘s stage appearance was over in minutes. After incomprehensibly muttering the lyrics to a new song, a couple of roadies […]

The English philosopher Andrew Flew who argued for the existence of God after a lifetime of atheism has died at the age of 87.

There is a palpable sense of relief amongst many in the Labour Party that Gordon Brown finally acknowledged the inevitable and stood down, after it became apparent that there could […]

In the classic Western film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, James Stewart’s character confesses that he wasn’t a hero, only to hear the newspaper man he’s confessed to respond, […]

The US goes by the motto In God We Trust (but only since 1956, when it replaced the ‘unofficial’ motto, E pluribus unum). A motto (from the Italian word for […]

IT became known in the end as the ‘Rotten Parliament’. Mired in scandal, exposed as money grubbers and expenses abusers, there will be few tears shed in Britain for many […]

Some morbidly obese people are missing a section of their DNA according to new research, which conjectures that such genetic problems could actually cause a propensity to obesity.

My dad read me Jack London’s The Call of the Wild when I was nine. I graduated from high school in a city that makes a big deal of its […]

Congestion pricing in England’s capital has upped the share of travelers that are using public transportation.

Such is the nature of news and journalism, that the temptation to conflate and exaggerate the significance of events, is a hard one to resist. Run of the Mill daily […]

There is a rough rule of thumb that British political leaders are obliged to contend with, and with mixed feelings. Just as their domestic polls begin to drop, foreigners begin […]

Sports fans are no strangers to the creep of statistical analysis changing the face of professional athletics, be it through Moneyball, the explosion of people playing fantasy sports, or elsewhere. […]

John Kerry and Barbara Boxer’s new Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act is  being trumpeted into the Senate this week. The act, stronger than the bill passed by the […]

During the G20 meeting in London! Thought, Pre. Obama still does not have the flash as if the Oxford-debating club- trained British Politician in answering question, he has the oriental Zen power-he can speak like” I come to learn and listen not lecture!” This wisdom of Zen opens the mind of human being to dialogue.rnrn Luckily, we have him to lead us through this Recession. Yes! WE CAN!rn

In a radical and risky move, the Bank of England today decided to start printing money to combat the economic crisis, according to the London Times. While this might be […]

Prof. Paul Krugman, Bank Nationalization! Never!

Saral Lyall moved to England for love but quickly discovered she could riff on it.