In a move that may be shocking to some, but appears to have been in the cards to happen, Ireland will move towards decriminalising drugs. This will include hero...
The authorities are apparently as scared of Guy Fawkes 400 years on as they were all those centuries ago. A planned protest will be guarded as securely as the m...
Canada's new leader, Justin Trudeau, has been sworn in as prime minister, ending 10 years of Conservative rule in the great white north.
His ascension, his sup...
Just one year ago, Facebook feeds, Twitter feeds, even Tumblr, were awash with videos and photos of people pouring buckets of ice water over their heads, all in...
The cast of Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials have come under significant fire over the past few days for stealing ancient Pueblo artefacts while filming at a Nati...
As if underage sex cases needed to be more creepy or poorly handled. A judge has, and will continue to be, criticised after deciding not to imprison a 21-year-o...
As if irony was in short supply in the UK I now bring you a story that seems too coincidental to be true. A Home Office drugs expert has been arrested on suspic...
Finally some sense can be seen in the American south.
Alabama is updating its decade-old science standards to require that students understand evolution and le...
In yet more weird news from America a woman who sued a sperm bank after she got pregnant by the wrong sample has had her case thrown out of court. The reason sh...
And yet another has happened. Another innocent citizen of America has been shot by a police officer. Officers made a simple mistake, they mistook a phone for gu...
For the past few days the media has been abuzz with the news leaked by former Tory Party donor Lord Ashcroft in an unofficial biography "Call me Dave" that our...
In a move that may result in a Bond villain emerging in real life, an Egyptian billionaire has a novel solution to the refugees crisis currently happening in Eu...
In a move already signalled earlier this week, Denmark has said it will not participate in the EU’s plans to resettle some 160,000 refugees within it's borders....
I know, you're probably sick of hearing about the Syrian Refugee situation. A situation introduced to the rest of the world via an image of a lifeless 3 year ol...
The UK Government is fuelling the conflict in Yemen and is potentially violating both domestic and international laws on the sales of arms, Oxfam has warned.
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In contrast to many of the governments around Western Europe, and indeed the world, the church may well be willing to do its part in defending those who have be...
In a move that is as controversial as it is necessary, the BBC have announced that they will propose doing a daily news broadcast which will be beamed into Nort...
A petition calling on the Government to “swap” Katie Hopkins for 50,000 refugees from Syria is approaching the 50,000 signatures required. I should tell you tho...
Cluster munitions have been used in five countries during 2015 posing a devastating threat to civilian populations caught in conflict zones, according to Human ...
When Francesca Pardi sent Pope Francis her children’s book, “Why do you have two moms?” she probably wasn’t expecting a response from one of the most influentia...
The Spanish authorities have arrested an American man, a sentence not often heard, but in this case the charges turn the stomach of most ordinary people. The Am...
The old adage that says working harder, for longer produces better results may well be changing according to a new study published this week.
Shortening the ...
As if America needed more gun deaths. Yet another of the citizens of the great nation we call the United States of America has lost their life to a gun crime. A...
A picture is worth a thousand words. In this case a picture is worth $170,000. A picture of an apparently very desperate man selling pens on the streets of Leba...
In yet another show of how governments should really work harder to protect their citizens, a man has been released after spending the last 4 months in prison a...
In a world where, more often than not, we as humans can only feel disappointment in other members of our species, occasionally an act of unwarranted kindness ca...
In a strikingly fast turnaround the South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is set to be released from prison on parole in August after serving just 10 months of ...
In a move, that can only be seen as a universal positive, Tesco’s chief executive has said that he does not feel ‘comfortable’ throwing out thousands of tonnes ...
In the first half of May the country caught what many would describe as "election fever" with politicians appearing on various channels to newspapers. One thing...
Katie Hopkins is a name that many are fully aware of, unfortunately one could say that that awareness is not necessarily for the right reasons. Since her appear...