Renewed warning on military influence in science

25 August, 2007 - 01:00
Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) has released a new briefing showing how flawed government policy is causing even more military involvement in UK laboratories. In 2004, governments spent $85 billion on military R&D, but only $50 billion on R&D for health and environment, and less than $1 billion on R&D for renewable energy technologies.
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IT classes raise the status of Untouchables

24 August, 2007 - 01:00
India’s latest attempt to tackle the Hindu caste system is a special course to prepare people in the "lowest" castes in Bangalore for careers in some of the world’s top IT companies.
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Online tool highlights Wikipedia's influence

24 August, 2007 - 01:00
A new Wikipedia scanner showed politicians regard Wikipedia as important enough to edit their own entries, including John Howard's office, and Diebold, US maker of voting machines and Republican Party supporter.
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Protests in Burma over fuel price rise

21 August, 2007 - 01:00
Hundreds of people have taken to the streets of Rangoon in a rare protest over a recent increase in fuel prices. Price increases of 100 per cent have been imposed by the government fuel monopoly, leading to generalised price increases for consumer goods and services. Further demonstrations are planned for upcoming days.
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12-year-old activist to document Iraqi refugee crisis

10 August, 2007 - 01:00
12-year-old Sonia, founder of Children against War, will be spending her summer holidays visiting Iraqi refugee children in Jordan and filming the camps, which now hold around 2 million people displaced by the war.
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Bleak future for Yangtze dolphin

10 August, 2007 - 01:00
China's Yangtze River Dolphin or 'Baiji' appears to be one step closer to extinction as scientists failed to count any of the endangered species along China's Yangtze River in a census carried out at the end of last year, but it is not officially extinct.
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Greens call for Foot and Mouth vaccination

10 August, 2007 - 01:00
After the 2001 FMD outbreak resulted in the slaughter of ten million cattle, the Royal Society and the EU recommended ring vaccination for future outbreaks. Green MEP Caroline Lucas is calling for a commitment that a wider outbreak will respect these reports and animal welfare.
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Second-rate care for the mentally ill

4 August, 2007 - 01:00
The closure of the Maudsley's 24-hour emergency clinic has left patients in South London with a second-rate service. Campaigners lost their fight to keep it open and now their predictions have come true. Patients in crisis now have to go to A&E and be treated in an open ward instead of the segregated area promised by then Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt.
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China: No Progress on Rights One Year Before Olympics

2 August, 2007 - 01:00
China’s dire human rights record and a renewed crackdown on media freedom may spoil the government’s hopes of a successful “coming out party” at the Beijing Olympics, which begin in a year, Human Rights Watch said today. Meanwhile Taiwanese human rights activists have announced they will start a rival Olympic torch relay to draw attention to China's human rights abuses.
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Heathrow seeks anti-environmentalist injunction

27 July, 2007 - 01:00
If you're a member of the National Trust, the RSPB, the Woodland Trust or Friends of the Earth, then you could be banned from Britain's biggest airport. And the Piccadilly line. And parts of Paddington station. And sections of the M4. All because the authorities want to halt a protest against climate change...
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