The Ministry of Defence (MoD) will spend more than £1bn to develop technology to speed up decisions on the battlefield. The funding will be one of the results of the government’s long-awaited strategic defence review which is due to be published in full on Monday. The government has committed to raising defence spending to 2.5%…
One of the Siamese crocodiles released – credit Phetpakay Bounhaxay © WCS While less than 1,000 Siamese crocodiles remain in the wild, community members in Laos have released ten of the rare animals into a local wetlands to boost the population. While crocodiles are not hunted, the species (Crocodylus siamensis) is ranked as Critically-Endangered by…
Sir Mark Rowley said police were carrying the “scar tissue” of austerity cuts Police will need more funding in next month’s spending review to meet the government’s pledges to cut crime, the head of the Metropolitan Police has told the BBC. Sir Mark Rowley praised the government’s “sensible ambition” to halve knife crime and violence…
93 years ago today, one of Europe’s greatest landscape engineering projects, the Afsuiltdijk, was completed in the Netherlands, proving that newly-mechanized Man could tame not only the land, but also the seas. The Afsuiltdijk closed off Zuiderzee (South Sea) Bay and converted it into a freshwater lake called IJsselmeer. In the previous 100 years, the…
Lucy Hooker Business reporter Getty Images Tens of thousands of energy customers are set to receive payouts of up to £1,000 each, and could see debts written off, in response to the scandal over the forced fitting of prepayment meters. Energy companies are paying out more £70m in compensation and financial support to customers. It…
Royal Veterinary College London student Jen Oraze with a sea turtle her team is putting through a CT scanner – credit RVC press. When a massive loggerhead sea turtle was hit by a boat and admitted to a Florida veterinary hospital, the doctors didn’t know what to do. They needed to ascertain the extent of…
Most recent trophy won: 2008 League Cup Like Newcastle, Tottenham are another underachieving team who have flirted with major honours in recent years without quite being able to get over the line. But Spurs – the club with the ninth-highest turnover in the world, external – ended their 17-year wait for a trophy when they…
Future of Humanity Experience and Andrew Corbley © GNN managing editor and lead writer Andy Corbley will be speaking at the Future of Humanity Experience in Basel, Switzerland, held between June 15th and June 22nd. Andy will present the talk entitled ‘To Travel is to Live Intentionally, to Travel Intentionally is to Live Transcendentally’ which…
Dominating Tuesday’s front pages is the “horror” in Liverpool after a car was driven into the crowd during Liverpool FC’s Premier League victory parade. The Guardian leads their coverage with an image of two paramedics carrying an injured Liverpool supporter after the incident in Water Street on Monday evening. The paper says a “53-year-old white…
– credit The Offline Club via Instagram Not everyone pines for the days without cell phones, but what about social media? Would you erase social media from the history books if you could? If you said yes, you share the feelings of a staggering 46% of teenage respondents to a recent survey from the British…
