NJ Watchdog Sues State Over Carbon Auction “Secrets”
In its first eight auctions, RGGI sold $662 million in CO-2 allowances, including $72 million in New Jersey permits. Those costs are eventually passed along to consumers in higher electric…
Al-Qaida and Taliban threat is exaggerated, says security thinktank
The threat posed by al-Qaida and the Taliban is exaggerated and the western-led counter-insurgency campaign in Afghanistan risks becoming a “long, drawn-out disaster”, one of the world’s leading security thinktanks…
UK: HMRC could take direct control of pay cheques after tax errors
Instead of employers deducting income tax then paying gross salaries to employees, the gross monthly payment would go to an HMRC-run tax “calculator”, which would then pass the net salary…
Chris Dodd’s last act: ‘Control the people’
Alarms are being raised over what probably is retiring Sen. Christopher Dodd's last major piece of legislation – the Livable Communities Act, which has been approved by the Senate Banking…
Hundreds of looted artifacts returned to Iraq
Hundreds of Iraqi artifacts looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country — including a 4,400-year-old statue of an ancient king stolen during the U.S.-led invasion — have been…
Bee decline already having dramatic effect on pollination of plants
Researchers have found that pollination levels of some plants have dropped by up to 50 per cent in the last two decades.
‘Mind-reading machine’ can convert thoughts into speech
Researchers have been able to translate brain signals into speech using sensors attached to the surface of the brain for the first time.
Fears rise as EU nations aim to raise borrowing
The eurozone debt crisis is about to enter a critical phase as governments prepare to step up borrowing in the capital markets to fund their faltering economies.
China to build $2bn railway for Iran
Nicklas Swanstrom, the executive director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University, said the contract to build the line was the first step for China to build an…
Anti-cop protests continue in LA
LAPD brass vows to investigate fatal shooting of day laborer; protesters egg police station
NJ Watchdog Sues State Over Carbon Auction “Secrets”
In its first eight auctions, RGGI sold $662 million in CO-2 allowances, including $72 million in New Jersey permits. Those costs are eventually passed along to consumers in higher electric…
Al-Qaida and Taliban threat is exaggerated, says security thinktank
The threat posed by al-Qaida and the Taliban is exaggerated and the western-led counter-insurgency campaign in Afghanistan risks becoming a “long, drawn-out disaster”, one of the world’s leading security thinktanks…
UK: HMRC could take direct control of pay cheques after tax errors
Instead of employers deducting income tax then paying gross salaries to employees, the gross monthly payment would go to an HMRC-run tax “calculator”, which would then pass the net salary…
Chris Dodd’s last act: ‘Control the people’
Alarms are being raised over what probably is retiring Sen. Christopher Dodd's last major piece of legislation – the Livable Communities Act, which has been approved by the Senate Banking…
‘Mind-reading machine’ can convert thoughts into speech
Researchers have been able to translate brain signals into speech using sensors attached to the surface of the brain for the first time.
Fears rise as EU nations aim to raise borrowing
The eurozone debt crisis is about to enter a critical phase as governments prepare to step up borrowing in the capital markets to fund their faltering economies.
NJ Watchdog Sues State Over Carbon Auction “Secrets”
In its first eight auctions, RGGI sold $662 million in CO-2 allowances, including $72 million in New Jersey permits. Those costs are eventually passed along to consumers in higher electric…