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Accidental discovery could cure cancer
A 3-D view of the mesh: microtubules (green tubes) of the mitotic spindle are held together by a yellow network, the mesh. (Warwick Medical School).
Scientists have accidentally discovered a cell structure which may prove helpful in the understanding of cancer development.
A group of researchers from the University of Warwick discovered “the mesh” and recently published their findings on the online...
UK to send fence to France to halt illegal migrants
Britain is reportedly set to build a 2-mile fence at the Channel Tunnel to stop migrants from boarding UK-bound trains.
Home Secretary Theresa May has said she wanted to send a “very clear message” that people will not be able to get through to the UK through this, the Daily Mail reported.
She said, “We are working very closely with the French authorities on this issue. We have been doing a...
Child poverty in UK set for biggest rise
A child playing in the streets in Brierfield in Lancashire where nearly 35% of children live in poverty.
Child poverty rate in Britain is reportedly heading towards its largest increase in a generation, reversing over a decade of progress that began in the late 1990s, leading independent experts say.
The bleak projection emerged Saturday just before the release of government statistics that are expected...
UK confirms arming Saudi Arabia in Yemen war
The photo released by Human Rights Watch shows the remnants of air-dropped cluster munitions and unexploded BLU-97 submunitions found in Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada on May 23, 2015.
Britain’s Ministry of Defense has confirmed London has been arming Saudi Arabia in its relentless military campaign against Yemen.
A ministry spokesperson said the Britain’s assistance to Saudi Arabia...
UK experts warn against growing steroid use
The number of men using anabolic steroids in Britain is reaching staggering proportions.
According to the Crime Survey for England and Wales, just under 60,000 people a year take steroids. However those working with steroid users say the number is significantly higher. Professor Julian Baker from the University of the West of Scotland is an expert in steroid use and thinks the number of steroid users...
Rioting Migrants Attempt to Hijack French Trucks Heading for UK
Shocking footage filmed in the French port town of Calais shows desperate migrants attempting to break into delivery trucks heading to the United Kingdom in another illustration of how the country’s generous welfare system acts as a beacon for illegal aliens.
The clip shows huge gangs of migrants roaming around on a highway attempting to attack vehicles.
Police or immigration authorities are nowhere...
UK suspends MI6 Espionage Activities in "Hostile" Russia and China - Snowden leak
The British MI6 secret service had to suspend operations of its field agents due to imminent exposure in “hostile” countries such as Russia and China, caused by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s leaks, the Sunday Times reports.
The Sunday Times alleges that both Moscow and Beijing have succeeded in cracking top-secret encrypted documents leaked by Snowden and thus learnt MI6’s methods.
The...
Hundreds of Britons protest building plan of new Mosque in small town
Around 200 supporters of far-right groups have descended on Dudley in the Midlands, to protests against plans to build a new mosque in the town. Demonstrators were carrying English flags and chanting patriotic slogans, while police made at least one arrest.
Police said that fewer people than expected had turned up to the rally in the town center on Saturday. Some were holding banners reading: “No...
Accidental discovery of blood, collagen in dinosaur bones could rewrite textbooks
An amazing discovery could rewrite textbooks, after a paleontologist accidentally found blood and soft tissue preserved in tattered dinosaur fossils. If proven, science expects answers to age-old questions, including: “Can we resurrect dinosaurs?”
The red blood cells and collagen fibers were discovered by chance when Imperial College London’s Sergio Bertazzo and Susannah Maidment were examining...
Monsanto plans 'corporate inversion' move to UK, wooed by Osborne's low taxes
Monsanto, the agrochemical and seed giant, is eyeing a move to the UK as part of a complex merger with Swiss rival Syngenta that would take advantage of Chancellor George Osborne’s lower corporation tax rate.
The US firm is proposing a so-called “corporate inversion,” or “tax inversion,” which would involve setting up a new company registered in the UK.
Syngenta rejected the $45 billion...
Russia ‘monitoring’ US nukes move to UK
Time exposure shot of testing of the LGM-118A Peacekeeper re-entry vehicles at the Kwajalein Atoll, all eight fired from one missile. The Peacekeeper is a US ballistic missile payload containing several warheads, each capable of being aimed to hit one of a group of targets.
Moscow says it is closely watching a possible deployment of the United States nuclear missiles in Europe.
Kremlin press secretary...
TTIP will legalize cancer-causing chemicals banned by EU
Britain could be flooded with harmful chemicals currently banned in the European Union if the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal is signed next week, a trade union has warned.
The GMB said chemicals that can cause cancerous tumors, birth defects and development disorders will be allowed in the EU after the controversial trade agreement is signed.
The union’s top health and...
Tony Blair to head European council on anti-Semitism
Following his decision to stand down as the Quartet’s Middle East envoy, former Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced he is taking up the position of chairman of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation (ECTR).
The council’s aim is to tackle prevailing anti-Semitism in European countries, ultimately making Holocaust denial a criminal offense, defining racism and anti-Semitism and...
Feminist Clergy Wants Christians to Refer to God as "She"
Feminist clergy within the Church of England wants Christians to refer to God as a ‘she,’ despite Jesus referring to God as His Father.
Women and the Church (WATCH), an activist clergy group best known for pressuring the Anglican Church to accept female bishops, wants to modify the official church liturgy to include female language and imagery to describe God.
“In the last two or three years...
Thousands of UK Girls Injured by HPV Vaccine
In a ten-year period, more than 2,500 females reported “serious,” life-threatening reactions.
Thousands upon thousands of girls in the United Kingdom have suffered adverse reactions as a result of receiving HPV vaccinations, with more than 2,500 of those enduring “serious” debilitating illnesses, a UK government agency reports.
A recent Freedom of Information request seeking the number...