Indian navy sinks pirate ship
The Indian navy has fired on and sunk a "mother ship" belonging to Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden, it has claimed. A government statement said that the INS Tabar opened fire on the pirate vessel after coming under attack. The Tabar spotted a pirate vessel 285... [continued]
In pictures: Pirates of Somalia 
Briefing: Who are the million dollar pirates?
Somalia: A victim of Bush's recklessness
Opinion Digest: It's all Bush's fault
New laws target prostitute users
The Government is to criminalise paying for sex with someone who is "controlled for another person's gain", Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is to announce today. Police will be given powers to close brothels, and more kerb-crawlers will be prosecuted under the plans. The actual buying and selling of sex... [continued]
Arguments for and against criminalising prostitution
BNP membership leaked on web
The entire membership list of the BNP has been published on the web, apparently by a disgruntled party member, revealing that serving and former police officers, teachers, soldier and even a vicar are among the far-right party's 13,500 members. Police officers are formally banned from joining the party, which... [continued]
Google takes a romantic view of the BNP
World first: grown organ transplant
Doctors in Spain have carried out the world's first transplant of an entire organ grown from the patient's own stem cells. Thirty-year-old mother of two Claudia Castillo is in perfect health five months after receiving a new windpipe grown from her own cells in Bristol. Castillo needed the transplant... [continued]
Pros and Cons of the creation of hybrid embryos
Obama: I will cut greenhouse gases
US president-elect Barack Obama yesterday pledged to open a "new chapter in America's leadership on climate change", speaking at an environmental summit organised by Californian governor Arnold Schwarzenegger via video link. Obama accused George W Bush of failing to show leadership on climate change, but said that would... [continued]
American Transition: all the latest from Washington
Alexander Cockburn: Economic woes pile into Obama's in tray
Cameron ditches spending pledge
The Conservatives yesterday abandoned their commitment to match Labour's spending plans, with leader David Cameron warning of significant tax rises if the Government goes ahead with its "spending splurge". The Tories had originally planned to match the totals for Labour's spending plans from 2008 to 2011. But in a... [continued]
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