Ian - Instablogs
Oct 7 2008
Lonely men ought to flaunt their copies of New Scientist. Women looking for both one-night stands and long-term relationships go for geniuses over dumb jocks, according to a new study of hundreds of university students.
Aug 22 2008
The South African man convicted of feeding one of his ex-workers to the lions has been freed on parole, after three years in jail.
Jun 26 2008
The Queen stripped Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe of his honorary knighthood on Wednesday.Acting on the advice of British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, the Queen’s move is meant to show displeasure over alleged human rights abuses by the...
May 15 2008
The center is based in the Baltic nation of Estonia, which was hit last year by an unprecedented wave of cyber attacks that crippled government and corporate computer networks. The attacks followed a dispute over the relocation of a Soviet war memorial...
May 15 2008
Palestinians are set to mark the 60th anniversary of al-Nakba, or “the Catastrophe” - the founding of Israel - with a series of marches and protests. More than 700,000 Palestinians fled their homes or were expelled in 1948, during the war...
May 10 2008
Since the success of Super Size Me, in which the comedian Morgan Spurlock deliberately fattened himself up on health-endangering amounts of fast food, he appears to have regarded his physical well-being as something to be menaced in the name of...
May 10 2008
Iran’s foreign minister deputy for Africa Mohammad Reza Bagheri says Iran welcomes opening political ties with Egypt. Iran’s policy emphasizes on expansion of ties with all particularly Islamic countries, he noted. Egypt is a big and important...
May 6 2008
Never having been as optimistic about Israel’s future as most Israelis once were, I am not as pessimistic about it as many Israelis (let alone anti-Israelis) now are. The optimism always had in it a good deal of wishful thinking; the pessimism has...
May 6 2008
Human Rights Watch has called for an investigation into claims that ethnic Albanians in Kosovo abducted and killed Serbs and may have sold their organs. The claims, relating to 1999, had been set out in a book by former UN war crimes prosecutor Carla...
May 3 2008
Imagine what a pacemaker does to your heart: Its electrical impulses regulate a heartbeat that’s out of whack. Now picture a pacemaker-type device that jolts the brain and regulates mood circuits, potentially easing deep depression no other...