Month: June 2011

BIG coffee drinkers are taking a latte break from reality, with half of them likely to hallucinate or hear things. If the break is supposed to be a stress-buster – as it often is – […] […]

YEMEN’S Ali Abdullah Saleh suffered far more serious injuries than originally reported during an attack on his presidential palace last week, including burns over 40 per cent of his body and a collapsed lung. The […] […]

LIBYAN leader Muammar Gaddafi has vowed in an audio message aired by state television that he would never surrender despite a new day of NATO-led air raids against targets around his Tripoli compound. “Despite the […] […]

MUTINOUS Syrian soldiers have joined forces with protesters after days of crackdowns in a tense northern region, apparently killing dozens of officers and security guards, residents and activists say. The details of what happened in […] […]

MORE than 5000 nuclear weapons are deployed around the world and nuclear powers continue investing in new weapon systems. And almost 2000 of those are kept in a high state of alert, making meaningful disarmament […] […]

JAPAN has more than doubled its initial estimate of radiation released from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in the week after the March 11 tsunami. The nation’s watchdog, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), […] […]

THERE is a bit of Geordie in Karen Butler’s accent, a dash of South African, and still a trace of the vampire that most alarmed her family when she came home from the dentist a […] […]

SYRIA has threatened to respond “firmly” to the reported killing of 120 policemen by “armed gangs” in the country’s northwest. Activists dispute the official account, speaking instead of a mutiny in the town of Jisrash […] […]