400 jobs are at risk of closure because of the council's plan to adopt a 'nil policy' on clubs that would put an end to the renewal of licenses.
13 December, 2010 - 13:56
2 December, 2010 - 23:10
After recent denial of service attacks WikiLeaks thought they had found a safer home using Amazon cloud computing, but Amazon bowed to US political pressure and kicked them off.
2 December, 2010 - 21:42
Israel’s Tzipi LivniThe recently published Police Reform Bill includes proposals which will make it much more difficult to obtain a UK arrest warrant for anyone accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
22 November, 2010 - 16:18
20 climate change activists face a Crown Court trial for planning to shut down the UK’s third largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions. 6 more are to be tried in January merely for thinking about it.
17 November, 2010 - 14:59
After Fitwatch posted advice for protesters at the Millbank occupation who may face arrest the site was blocked by the police. But rapid posting of the information on websites, blogs and social media made the block useless and now Fitwatch is back.
17 November, 2010 - 13:15
You can help with new research to understand climate change in more detail than ever before. A new regional climate model available to download and run on personal computers anywhere has been developed by climateprediction.net.
12 November, 2010 - 11:46
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s democracy leader, has now been released after more than 15 years of detention. Her release on 13 November is very welcome but does not signify any political change in the country. There are still 2,202 political prisoners in Burma.
11 November, 2010 - 14:39
Former directors of Swiss Bank UBS, who received substantial bonuses through an offshore tax avoidance scheme, are now top UK Treasury officials responsible for the tax regulation of RBS, Lloyds Banking group, Northern Rock and others.
4 November, 2010 - 00:38
Although the coalition government scrapped plans for a central information database and ID cards, they have quietly reintroduced proposals for ISPs and CSPs to maintain databases of internet and telecoms traffic which they will be able to intercept, and not only in the “interests of national security”.
28 October, 2010 - 15:41
© Survival InternationalSurvival International and other organisations reporting on human rights in West Papua have come under a massive cyberattack. The attacks came one week after a shocking video showing Indonesian soldiers torturing Papuan tribal people was released.