Animal Rights Group "Bugged by Police", Court Hears

POLICE used bugging devices to spy on the headquarters of an animal rights group, a court has heard today.  Five people are accused of using blackmail against firms with connections to Huntingdon Life Sciences in Cambridge.  The five are charged with conspiracy to...

For Pioneering Black Theater, A Season

" In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's long-running family drama A Raisin in the Sun brought together an ensemble of African-American artists — Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Louis Gossett Jr. among them — on Broadway. ...

Antisocial Behaviour Link to Stress Hormone Cortisol

SCIENTISTS at Cambridge University have presented a paper which shows that adolescent boys diagnosed with a history severe antisocial behaviour are deficient in the stress hormone emotion regulator, cortisol.  In a normal person there is a surge of this hormone in times...

Antisocial behaviour hormone link

cambridge university  team came with an intersting research, which is going to break some previous notions regarding the antisocial behaviour. study says that antisocial bahaviour is more related to bilogicallly...

Statins 'prevent artery ageing'

"Drugs given to heart patients to lower cholesterol may have an additional benefit - keeping their blood vessels feeling younger. Advanced heart disease patients have arteries which have effectively aged faster than the rest of their bodies. University of Cambridge...

Prof Ralph Russell - the British Baba-i-Urdu - Passes Away

Prominent Urdu scholar, Professor Ralph Russell,Head of Urdu department, Oriental and African Studies, UK, passed away. His death is a huge loss to the Urdu language. Among Russell’s many famous works is his...

Pink Shirt Day in some Nova Scotia schools

It is a happy irony, or maybe divine justice, that a bullying incident in Nova Scotia created an anti-bullying campaign that reached kids worldwide. Today in Cambridge, N.S., the small town where it all started, kids...

Five simple ways to save a life

"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Quick: What would you do if you impaled yourself with a large, sharp, piece of wood? If your tooth fell out? If you fell from a high ladder? If your friend had a severe allergic reaction? ...

"Vote for me,Elect Me and I will add new Taxes in return ", --Only in Canada

Only in Canada can you actually run a campaign based on an issue of actually adding a new tax ( Dion's carbon Tax) on to already taxed upto to the neck public and still hope to win.I was born in India and kinda grew...

Tesco pulls out of eco-towns project in UK

Tesco, the UK superkmarket giant, has pulled out of a plan to build "ecotowns" in Britain. The towns were supposed to contain zero-carbon flats and be generally environmentally friendly. "Gordon Brown's plan for eco-towns was unravelling last night, with Tesco withdrawing...

Filming In Cambridge Recreates Days of Horse and Buggy

The City of Cambridge, Ontario, Canada is all a buzz as just moments ago a film crew began shooting footage to use for the second season of "The Murdoch Mysteries". Hundreds of people blew into town to support...

British Northerners 'should go south'

In the United Kingdom, there tends to be a lot of tension between London and the rest of the country. Being the nation's only major international city ("global city"), it receives the lion's share of attention, and...

The 2,000-year-old Greek 'super computer' used to predict eclipses decades in...

" The world's oldest calculator - a box of dials, gears and cogs created by the Ancient Greeks more than 2,000 years ago - could predict eclipses decades in advance, say researchers. The Antikythera Mechanism,...

Brain region found to be linked to OCD-health

"LONDON: Scientists have located an area in the brain that fails to "kick-in" for people with obsessive compulsive disorder and those at risk of developing the condition. The discovery could allow experts to diagnose the disorder much earlier and better track how...

Stephen Hawking may Leave Britain, Settle in Canada

Stephen Hawking, the famous theoretical physicist whose work in quantum mechanics and black hole theory, amongst other things, is considering moving to Canada. The news comes after Hawking lashed out at the British government for $160 million worth of cuts in science funding...

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