Possible Tokyo Evacuation Was Kept Secret in Nuclear Crisis

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: January 25, 2012

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese government’s worst-case scenario at the height of the nuclear crisis last year warned that tens of millions of people, including residents of Tokyo, might be forced to leave their homes, according to a report. Fearing widespread panic, officials kept…

800 EU banks get 529.5 bln euros in ECB emergency loans

Published: 29 February, 2012, 14:46

European Banks have sucked up €529.5bn in cheap money from the ECB. It’s the second auction by the European Central Bank in its Long Term Refinancing Operation (LTRO).

­The money will help improve liquidity in the market.  Stock markets have reacted positively. Analysts also expect that over €100 billion of the new LTRO…

Cannabis farm in bunker below farmer's field discovered by police with thermal imaging camera

• Underground cannabis haul worth £130,000
• Manchester police find another factory hidden behind mirror in a cellar

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 9:30 AM on 29th February 2012

A…

Police arrest 25 Anonymous hackers across the globe

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 6:49 AM on 29th February 2012

Twenty five suspected members of the loose-knit Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in a sweep across Europe and South America, Interpol have announced.

The international police…

Remains of some 9/11 victims were given to a private contractor for disposal and sent to a landfill

• Spokesman admits 'it shouldn't have happened'

By Emine Sinmaz

Last updated at 9:29 AM on 29th February 2012

Partial and incinerated remains of some September 11 victims that could not be…

We've had bird flu and swine flu - now scientists have found BAT FLU (and it could pose a threat to humans)

• U.S health officials have found influenza in Guatemalan bats
• Strain could pose a risk to humans if it mingled with more common forms of flu
• Scientists haven't yet been able to grow the new virus in chicken eggs or in human cells in…

Two Bibles 'containing terror codes' found hidden in Bin Laden compound as it is demolished

Pakistani officials also found two radio sets at the Abbottabad compound

Three-storey building has now been razed to the ground

By Graham Smith

Last updated at 9:24 AM on 29th February 2012

Pakistani…

Israel will strike Iran without warning US - intelligence source

Published: 28 February, 2012, 09:32

Israeli officials say if they decide to launch a pre-emptive attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, they will do so without the prior consent or knowledge of the US, according to an AP report citing leaked US intelligence.

FULL STORY:…

Protest over World Bank bleak prediction for China

Published: 28 February, 2012, 17:58

A one-man protest has disrupted a conference in China by the World Bank President Robert Zoellick. He thrust leaflets into the hand of Zoellick while saying "The World Bank report is poison to China."

Du Jianguo, who claims to be an economist, was angry over a World Bank prediction the country’s economy could…

Do tools belonging to Stone Age hunters found on U.S. east coast prove the first Americans came from Europe NOT Asia?

• New discovery of European-style tools being heralded as among the most important archaeological breakthroughs for decades
• Supports the theory that Stone Age humans could make the…

'We're going to win': Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is confident in first interview since bail release on piracy charges

By Rob Waugh

Last updated at 5:48 PM on 28th February 2012

Kim Dotcom, the millionaire founder of file-sharing website Megaupload said 'We’re confident we’re going to win,' in his…

Armageddon 2040: Nasa identifies new asteroid threat which 'could hit Earth' in 30 years' time - and UN teams are working out how to divert it

• Asteroid has 1 in 625 chance of hitting Earth
• UN team debating options including nuclear weapons and 'steering' it away with a probe
• Scientists will measure rock further in…

Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham becoming 'no-go areas' because of drugs gangs... just like Mexico and Brazil says the UNITED NATIONS

• UN narcotics chief: Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool are comparable to Brazil and Mexico for their 'no-go' areas

• Badly managed large scale immigration fuels the problem

• 'Drug traffickers, organised crime, drug users - they take over'

• Celebrity use of drugs…

France opens negotiations with Syria to recover its 18 agents

On 13 February 2012, Thierry Meyssan revealed on the first Russian television channel that Syria had captured a dozen French soldiers. Voltaire Networkis now in a position to confirm that as of 26 February the number of French prisoners is 18 (eighteen).

If Paris admits that they were on a mission, they will be entitled to prisoner-of-war status and protected by the relative…

Protesters Storm Friends of Syria Conference

Charles Baeder | 24 February 2012

Following the kick-off…

Anonymous takes on prison industrial complex with latest hack

Published: 24 February, 2012, 22:38

The prison industrial complex is the latest victim of Anonymous’ #FuckFBIFriday campaign. Hacktivists have compromised data from a massive correctional facility management firm and have defaced their website.

The website for The GEO Group, Inc., a Florida-based management firm with clients worldwide, has been targeted by operatives…

The Fireballs of February

Feb. 22, 2012:  In the middle of the night on February 13th, something disturbed the animal population of rural Portal, Georgia. Cows started mooing anxiously and local dogs howled at the sky. The cause of the commotion was a rock from space.

"At 1:43 AM Eastern, I witnessed an amazing fireball," reports Portal resident Henry Strickland. "It was very large and lit up half the sky as it fragmented. The event set…

NYPD detective 'sexually assaulted waitress during boozy on-duty lunch with colleagues'

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 10:11 PM on 25th February 2012

Four NYPD detectives have been remanded on desk duty amid allegations of sexual assault…

Britain's lambs being wiped out by killer virus from Europe amid fears disease could spread to humans

By Tamara Cohen

Last updated at 11:53 PM on 26th February 2012

A virus which causes lambs to be born dead or with serious deformities is sweeping…

The last Jewish gangster: Julius Bernstein's once-secret FBI file revealed

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 4:11 PM on 26th February 2012

The extraordinary mob life of Julius Bernstein, the last of New York's great Jewish gangsters, has been revealed…