As the third instalment of the Twilight Saga hits the big screen, Bo Wilson explores the beautiful lush glades of Washington State that inspired the vampire novels and films.... more
Technology: A classic example of a great idea in consumer technology that's never been well implemented is location-based social networking, where people use apps to tell each other where they are at any particular moment... more
We're just months away from a general election and a possible Conservative victory. One of those in line for recognition in a new Tory administration is backbencher Michael Fallon... more
One of Mexico's biggest drugs kingpins was shot dead in a two-hour gun battle with 200 sailors from the country's navy in a raid on a block of flats... more
Group of MPs to sue America's intelligence agency in an attempt to force it to hand over secret files that could show whether Britain was involved in the extraordinary renditions of terrorist suspects... more
Tony Blair was so drunk with power that he used 'alarming subterfuge' to mislead British people into war against Iraq, one of his former senior civil servants claims... more
In a letter to the Evening Standard, Vince Cable says I was wrong to argue that directors of Royal Bank of Scotland should be free to distribute their £1.5 billion bonus pool... more
Family of Meredith Kercher tell how they will continue to live under a 'black cloud' until the appeal of those convicted of the British student’s murder is over... more
On the same day that Britain’s Chancellor and the chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland are engaged in a public row over bonuses, it’s disclosed that Bank of America is able to pay back the $45 billion (£27 billion) it received from the taxpayer and escape the clutches of the US government... more
On the same day that Britain's Chancellor and the chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland are engaged in a public row over bonuses, it's disclosed that Bank of America is able to pay back the $45billion it received from the US taxpayer and escape the clutches of the US government... more
Newspaper publishers will be able to limit how many of their articles internet users can read before they have to pay for them Google, the world’s biggest search engine, announced... more
One more heave: the new gospel of the Afghanistan intervention was proclaimed overnight in Washington. Its reverberations will shake British politics in the election and beyond... more
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