Mind-bending: Controlling your Windows PC with your brain is possible (and the hardware is already on the shelves)

• Headsets which can probe your brain for commands hit the shelves
• Researchers expect technology to take off as inventors and enthusiasts find new ways to use kit…

Anonymous shuts down Kremlin’s websites

Published: 09 May, 2012, 13:27

A hacker group calling itself the Russian branch of Anonymous has claimed responsibility for shutting down the websites of the Kremlin and the Russian President.

The sites kremlin.ru and…

Kalashnikov promenade: Blogger embarrasses Moscow cops

Published: 10 May, 2012, 14:43

A politically-loaded experiment involving a man walking through central Moscow with a replica of an AK-74 assault rifle has hit the Russian blogs. Not a single police officer reportedly stopped or questioned him.…

At least 55 killed in twin blasts at Damascus intel compound, terrorists blamed (PHOTOS)

At least 55 people have been killed and 372 others injured by two powerful blasts in the Syrian capital on Thursday morning. The car bombs detonated near a military intelligence building.

The blasts happened just as employees were arriving at work. Ambulances are trying to…

Married police sergeant jailed for getting suicidal woman to perform sex act after he drove her home when she called 999

• Peter Jee returned to the victim's house in Rochdale after he knew that his colleagues had left the scene
• The woman had taken a cocktail of drink and drugs and just wanted to go home…

Chemical cosh drugs 'given to children aged three' as prescriptions to treat hyperactivity soar

• Number of Ritalin prescriptions leapt from 158,000 in 1999 to 661,463 in 2010

By Laura Clark

PUBLISHED: 01:25…

New group of hackers, calling themselves The Unknowns, steal codes from Nasa, the U.S. military... and the Jordanian Yellow Pages

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 16:25 GMT, 4 May 2012 | UPDATED:…

Naked body scanners could be soon be in all UK airports after EU ruled they are safe

• Trials had been halted over fears of harmful radiation
• New study reveals risk to passengers is 'close to zero'

By Leon…

Israeli military to keep tabs on Facebook, Twitter

Published: 03 May, 2012, 18:14

Israel is the latest country to turn your Facebook posts and Twitter feed into a matter of state security by launching a new military-run internet information monitoring system.

Israel’s chief military censor Col. Sima…

Anti-doping authorities may allow athletes to smoke pot

Published: 03 May, 2012, 20:11

Up in the smoke; the ban on marijuana use in sports may soon be lifted, where it’s not proven to be a performance enhancer. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is planning a serious shake up of the international drug code.

­The issue will be…

Giant ghost flotilla of tsunami debris on course to hit US coast (VIDEO)

Published: 02 May, 2012, 23:05

Edited: 03 May, 2012, 11:29

We’ve already had the story of the Japanese football and the Harley Davidson motorcycle swept away by the tsunami last March and washed up thousands…

Fighter planes at Northolt for the first time since WWII as elite RAF say they will shoot down passenger jets to protect Olympics

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 17:25 GMT, 2 May 2012 | UPDATED: 00:23 GMT, 3 May…

Wind farms make climate change WORSE: Turbines actually heat up local areas

• Air temperatures around four of the world's largest wind farms have increased by 0.72C in a decade
• Earth's average temperature has risen by 0.8C since 1900

By…

Brazil oil platform evacuated as precaution

Published April 29, 2012 Associated Press

BRASILIA, Brazil –  Rio de Janeiro's port  captain says about 100 workers have been evacuated from a tilting oil platform  in that city's…

Israeli intel ex-chief: Netanyahu’s policy on Iran misleading, messianic

Published: 29 April, 2012, 22:06

Top Israeli government ministers are misleading the public about the consequences of preemptive military action against Iran, former Israeli security chief Yuval Diskin has warned.…

Prostate cancer surgery 'has little or no benefit' in extending life of patients

• The study compared surgically removing prostate gland with 'watchful waiting'
• Some experts now questioning whether disease should even be called cancer

By…

Syria rebels 'launch sea raid' as Lebanon seizes weapons

28 April 2012 Last updated at 12:40 GMT

Syrian rebel gunmen in inflatable dinghies have attacked a military unit on the Mediterranean coast, with deaths on both sides, state media report.

It is…

U.S Army floats the idea of a 'magic bullet' that hangs around in the air waiting to strike

By Ted Thornhill

PUBLISHED: 11:10 GMT, 26 April 2012 | UPDATED: 13:22 GMT, 26 April 2012

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How a spate of suicides has a shocked the Greek nation as it prepares to go to the polls

By Reuters Reporter

PUBLISHED: 15:48 GMT, 28 April 2012 | UPDATED: 16:59 GMT, 28 April 2012

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Media buzz as US confirms Russian troops to train on American soil

Published: 28 April, 2012, 18:04

The US has confirmed that Russian troops will carry out joint anti-terror drills on American soil in May. Reports of the unprecedented initiative had triggered hysteria in American public debate, with claims of the US fraternizing with…