‘It might take more than the king’s horses and the king’s men, your Highness’
Wikimedia
The Bingham report on how to stabilise the UK is well meaning but out of step with the reality of the situation.
With one invention James Watt blasted the UK 60 years into the future.
James Eckford Lauder, 1855
Issues of energy and climate will be solved by engineering, not climate science.
High heel parkour.
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High heeled shoes may lift you up and look fabulous, but your body tells a different story.
Scene of the crime.
Metropolitan Police/PA
CSI lied to you: investigating a crime scene is long, complicated and often boring.
Arms laid down: French president François Hollande visits Bangui.
EPA/Sia Kambou
The CAR is a phantom state that has barely existed for years. Even with a ten-way peace deal now signed, what future does it have?
The Venice of the Sands.
EPA/SANA
The destruction of Iraq and Syria’s cultural heritage is more than wanton vandalism – it’s a grim political project.
School children in Kathmandu before the earthquake.
Anna Childs
Almost 24,000 classrooms were damaged or destroyed in Nepal’s April earthquake.
Were eruptions of pressurised goundwater once commonplace on Mars?
ESA
For centuries, scientists have wondered how water channels on Mars formed. Our model suggests that they were caused by water erupting from subsurface lakes on the ancient planet.
A long road to equality.
William Murphy
Let’s hope Ireland votes Yes, but the government could have made sure marriage equality happened years ago.
The 34-storey timber tower planned for Stockholm.
Berg | C.F. møller Architects
Until recently, tall wooden towers were an engineering impossibility. Following a breakthrough a few years ago, the sky is increasingly the limit.
Bringing sexy back?
Country Life/EPA
Obsessing about the bard’s dashing good looks won’t help us understand his works.
Still adrift.
EPA/STR
Under enormous pressure, countries in south east Asia are at last offering help to thousands of stranded migrants – but their gesture is far less meaningful than it seems.
Rigged.
www.vpsi.org
The culture of foreign exchange market has changed significantly, but problems persist with the market that make it susceptible to further transgressions.
Initiating iScan.
Shutterstock
Public anxiety and legal protections currently pose a major challenge to anyone wanting to introduce eye-scanning security technologies.
An historic handshake.
Chris Bellew Fennell Photography/EPA
Prince Charles’ handshake with Gerry Adams was a momentous occasion for many reasons.
A family is a family.
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Gay marriage opponents argue that children need a mother and a father. The law says otherwise.
Dads in Paris.
David McSpadden/Flickr
Genetic study reveals that two-thirds of European men can be traced back to just three individuals who lived between 3,500 and 7,300 years ago.
Found at sea.
Valentino Cilmi/EPA
You’d think that the “conscience of Europe” would strive to protect migrants’ human rights.
Harder climb if you don’t conform.
Up by Shutterstock
Neurodiversity describes those who think, see and process information differently. And they can be an asset in the right workplaces.
Nationalism: it’s a more complex picture than you think.
Travel Junction
Conservative political parties did not conjure up English nationalism, they capitalised on a growing trend.
Ashers Bakery case just the icing on the cake.
Brian Lawless/PA
The fight over whether gay people deserve service taps into old sectarian divisions in Northern Ireland.
The oldest-known stone tool: made by a human ancestor or a chimp?
MPK-WTAP
Discovery of 3.3m-year old stone tools in Kenya are the oldest-known manufactured artefacts.
Stopped in its tracks.
Nicholas Hair/Wikimedia Commons
The bank holiday strikes may cause transport chaos, but they’ll pack a big punch for industry workers.
Bad acronym, bad treaty.
Global Justice Now/Flickr
Why everyone should be worried about TTIP and CETA.
Fighting the debt effect. Greece is struggling at every level.
psyberartist
A call to break with the leadership of Greece’s ruling party has highlighted the futility of debt-led austerity and the burden it places on people on the wrong side of a banker’s bad bet.