Did MI6 'dry clean' this flat to cover up the spy in a bag murder? Not one fingerprint and five missing hours before police called

By Paul Bracchi and Chris Greenwood…

French fear new serial killer after four people are murdered by gunman on a motorbike (just like Muslim fanatic who killed seven just weeks ago)

• Murders have chilling echoes of Muslim fanatic Mohamed Merah's killing spree
• Three of the victims shot in the head with the same 7.65mm handgun used for each killing
• Shootings took…

No breaking wind, burping or slurping! Mayor bans townsfolk in Spanish village from 65 types of rude behaviour

By Matt Blake

PUBLISHED: 16:07 GMT, 6 April 2012 | UPDATED: 02:31 GMT, 7 April…

Riots erupt in Greece after 'martyr' shoots himself over debt crisis

• 1,000 mourners gather in the spot where 'martyr' died
• Dimitris Christoulas, 77, a retired pharmacist, shot himself yards from the Greek parliament
• He said state pension had been slashed in suicide note…

03/27/2012

Somalia Mission Expands

EU To Target Pirates Up to Two Kilometers Inland

By Matthias Gebauer

Last week, the European Union agreed to expand its anti-piracy mission to include land-based targets in Somalia. SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned that air attacks up to two kilometers inland will be allowed. But an…

Confirmed: CIA secret prison in Poland

Published: 01 April, 2012, 15:58 Edited: 02 April, 2012, 00:40

Another CIA-run interrogation 'black site' has been exposed after the confessions of top-ranking Polish officials blew the lid on the dirtiest secret in Eastern Europe. 

­The…

I presented my story at TEDx Observer in London recently, and the video from the event has come online. This was the first time I was asked to tell my story, rather than talking about the pirate ideas.

After a significant amount of sweat, I knew what to say. (More conferences are already asking for this presentation, or variations on it, by the way.) I think it came out quite well for a 15-minute presentation:

This was at…

No to cuts: Spain demos oppose labor reform (PHOTOS)

Secret EU deal forces Britain to take in 12,000 Indian workers despite soaring unemployment

• Britain must take more Indian workers than any other nation - and TWICE as many as France
• UK must take 30% of the workers despite having only 12% of the population

By…

Visitors told to only SMELL the healing water of Harrogate after it is declared off-limits by EU rules which brand it a health risk

By Chris Brooke

Last updated at 12:29 AM on 1st March 2012

Hundreds of thousands have drunk from Harrogate’s ‘healing’…

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…

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…

Life-saving new cancer drugs are being held back so the Government can save money, claims GlaxoSmithKline chief executive

• UK is delaying the approval of new treatments
  
  
• Several new drugs have been blocked by Nice, says academic…
  
  

Vaccine scandal: Many children suffered incurable brain disease

H1N1 vaccine Pandemrix is suspected to have caused many Swedish and Finnish children the rare neurological disorder narcolepsy.



By Birgitte Marfelt, Monday 20th February 2012 at. 07:24

The mass vaccination, as Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland performed as swine flu H1N1 three years ago broke out, has by all accounts suffered many Swedish and…

Frontier front: Syrian rebels trapped near Turkey

Syrian frontier guards are battling militants who have infiltrated from Turkey, as the army deploys troops to quash hostile forces trapped in the mountains. The clashes highlight claims outside forces are actively fueling the conflict in Syria.

­North to the Syrian city of Aleppo (340 kilometers from Damascus) frontier guards have eliminated several subversives, captured…

Staring into the abyss: Inside a despairing Greek nation where families queue at soup kitchens and women threaten to jump to their deaths as job losses mount

By Ian Birrell

Last updated at 4:23 AM on 18th February 2012

When Eleni Nikolaidou agreed to…

SOPA’s big brother, ACTA, Signed By EU Nations

By Jennifer Baker

PC World

The European Union …

TEHRAN (Reuters) -…

Rebels captures Chinese in Sudan

29 Chinese people held as prisoners by the rebels in Sudan after battles with government forces



18:05, 29 January 2012 | Ritzau / News



A growing crisis between Sudan and South Sudan pose a serious threat to peace and security in the region, says UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who participates in an African summit in Ethiopia.



- Situation in Sudan and South Sudan has reached a critical…

World Renowned flu expert: the next pandemic can kill millions

Here we go again? The experts keep talking about influenza pandemics, but how bad is it really? We asked one of the world's leading flu experts

By: Charlotte Price Persson, Journalist

14th November 2011 pm. 14:38

As a distant disliked cousin bird flu reappears from 2009 from time to time when someone dares to mention the word…