A reminder, in case you needed it, that it is not 1794 anymore: Vice Admiral William Gortney of the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet has advised merchant mariners that there's not much he or his Combined Task Force 150 can do

G igantism is the handmaiden of modernity, or so we have been led to believe. In literature, future utopias are almost always characterized by a world government, on the grounds that presumably the people of earth have evolved beyond the

Lashkar is one of the largest powerful organisations in Pakistan. It receives a fair amount of international financial assistance, says Stewart Bell, a Canadian journalist who has visited the terrorist group's camps in Pakistan.

B arack Obama's election victory has inspired a windfall of comment, most of it euphoric, with some grumbling from the political Right and the small quarters of the Left that remain unimpressed, so I am hesitant to contribute to the

DR DAVID PURVES, from Edinburgh, on climate-change and population

A spinal injury sufferer and communications manager at national charity Spinal Injuries Scotland. The charity has worked with young rugby players who have suffered severe spin

HAVING sat at the back of the class watching (sorry, critically analysing) my stage-managed lesson during a so-called "observation" period, the deputy head fel

Are measures to reduce exposure to nuts based on largely irrational fears?

TODAY you can fit more books onto the hard disk of your laptop computer than in a bookstore carrying 60,000 titles. The number of web pages on the internet is rumoured to ha

ANDY KERR, Labour MSP and finance spokesman

PLANE Stupid. You see what they did there? There's to be no messing with these fiendishly clever minds, clearly.

NEXT WEEK marks Nick Clegg's first anniversary as Liberal Democrat leader. He'll probably achieve a second year, but may struggle to survive a third.

DANIEL James, a bright, young engineering student at Loughborough University, was a keen rugby player. He was good enough to play for the England Students team and tipped as

BETWEEN the Lines

FRED BRIDGLAND knew journalists in Zimbabwe were treated as criminals. But this was happening here in Britain...

Barack Obama is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's only hope.

The general who whipped U.S. forces in a famous war game tells FP how to crack down on Somali pirates. Ahoy!

Nevada Jacks, one of the world's top manufacturers and retailers of custom ceramic casino-grade poker chips and gaming supplies, recently introduced limited edition chips celebrating the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. Full 300

Patent covers use of web-based social media on digital out-of-home displays (PRWeb Dec 9, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/12/prweb1723724.htm

ResortQuest's support of the Kiawah Island Nature Conservancy and presence on Seabrook Island, which is a certified member of the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program and the Greenspace Conservancy, demonstrates a keen interest in wildlife preservation. Like Kiawah and Seabrook Islands,