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HSBC exposed: Drug money banking, terror dealings
One of the biggest high street banks, London based HSBC, have been caught up in funding terrorism and money laundering for the Mexican drug cartels.
HSBC’s activities in Saudi Arabia were brought into question in a report, which specifically refers to banking with Al Rajhi Bank.
The investigation claims the Saudi bank has links to financing terrorism, based on evidence gathered after the September...
GM crop grant planted in UK: Britons wary
UK scientists have received a US$10 million grant for research into GM crops in one of the biggest investments in the field. The British public remains skeptical of GM foods, a recent report suggesting they pose both environmental and health threats.
The multi-million investment from UK-based charity the Gates Foundation will be used to cultivate GM modified corn, wheat and rice.
Scientists from the...
Hundreds of innocent people wrongly spied on by police in UK
Almost 1,000 innocent people have been wrongly spied on by the police, security services and town halls because of errors in “snooping” requests.
Two people were even arrested and wrongly accused of crimes they did not commit because officials wrote down incorrect details, a surveillance watchdog revealed.
And a local council wrongly used snooping powers designed to combat crime to spy on a family...
Feminist charged with hate crime for helping Muslim woman with groceries
Want an example of how a liberal society is set up to eventually commit suicide? A feminist journalist from England, Cinnamon Heathcote-Drury, got involved in a case that serves as just such an example.
Heathcote-Drury got her world turned upside down over the last few months, and the liberalism of her own self-defeating British culture is what did her in. One has to feel for her, if only a little...
Now foreign police forces can snoop on your emails and texts
Foreign police forces will be able to obtain details of the British public’s internet use, emails and text messages, it emerged last night.
In a controversial move, MPs were told that officials in Europe and the US will be able to take advantage of the Home Office’s proposed ‘snoopers’ charter’.
The information could be used for pursuing UK citizens for crimes which allegedly took place...
Britain's Atlantis found at bottom of North Sea
Divers from St Andrews University, find remains of Doggerland, the underwater country dubbed ‘Britain’s Atlantis’
‘Britain’s Atlantis’ – a hidden underwater world swallowed by the North Sea – has been discovered by divers working with science teams from the University of St Andrews.
Doggerland, a huge area of dry land that stretched from Scotland to Denmark...
Tensions between UK and Russia soared over Syria-bound helicopters
Britain came alarmingly close to a dangerous clash with Moscow when David Cameron was asked to consider giving an order to forcibly board a ship headed towards the English Channel carrying three Russian-made helicopters for delivery to the regime in Syria, it emerged today.
Any seizure would have been carried out by members of the Special Boat Service, SBS, the only military unit authorised to performing...
Assange asks for political asylum in Ecuador
A lot of media outside Ecuadorean embassy in London waiting for Assange
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has requested political asylum and is under the protection of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, according to the site’s Twitter.
Ecuador’s foreign minister Ricardo Patino says Assange has taken refuge in the South American nation’s embassy in London and is seeking political asylum.
Assange...
Scientists suggest that the universe could grind to a halt
A computer visualization of dark matter in the Universe which scientists have previously battled to explain
People often say that time speeds up as we age, but if the latest scientific theory is true the opposite could well be the case.
The radical theory by academics suggests that time itself could be slowing down – and may eventually grind to a halt altogether.
The latest mind-bending findings...
London 2012: Olympic Fear Games
Seven years ago, when Great Britain won the tender for the Summer Olympic Games in 2012, there were expectation that the City of London will be gorging on cheap credit and mega-bonuses. A few days later, terrorists staged a series of explosions on public transport in London, killing 52 people. Then came the global financial crisis and expectations of easy money have failed. The Olympics are prepared...
Dinosaurs not as heavy as previously thought
Scientists laser scanned several skeletons of modern-day mammals in order to measure the minimum amount of skin needed to cover them
Biologists at the University of Manchester have developed a method of measurement, which shows that dinosaurs were not as big and heavy as previously though.
According to the study, published in the journal Biology Letters, scientists laser scanned several skeletons of...
Spain takes UK to UN over Gibraltar
Spain will take its dispute with Britain over the sovereignty of the Gibraltar Rock to the United Nations, Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs says, after the provocative projection of British Queen’s giant image on the Rock earlier this week.
The image of the Queen was projected on the northern face of the rock next to Britain’s flag on Tuesday night as the youngest son of the Queen and his wife...
Argentina’s president to personally attend UN committee on Malvinas
Argentina’s president plans to personally attend a session of the UN Special Committee on Decolonization on June 14 as her country tries to assert its sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, Press TV reports.
June 14th marks the anniversary of the end of the war between Argentina and Britain over the islands in 1982.
Ahead of President Cristina Fernandez’s address in New York, a group of local...
UK braces for immigration boom if euro collapses
Britain’s Home Office is drawing up contingency plans to restrict the number of economic migrants from Greece and other European Union nations in case the euro collapses.
EU rules allow citizens to work anywhere in any country in the single market, including the UK, with the exception of new members Romania and Bulgaria. People looking for work abroad may see Britain as an attractive option as...
UK hospital food worse than junk
Being sent to a hospital in the UK could ruin your health. A recent study shows that three quarters of fast food meals are healthier than the food that is being served in the British hospitals.
The study conducted by the Sustain campaign group found that the food served in UK hospitals contains 60 percent more salt than an average burger. One curry portion served to clients had six times more fat...