A joint investigation by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International has condemned the use of drones in US attacks on Pakistan and Yemen, claiming it amounts...
A new report into Ministry of Defence litigations has been condemned by some lawyers, who claim that the findings and recommendations are unfair. The report, The Fog of Law, was...
Campaigners who were convicted of criminal damage after breaking through a fence at an RAF base in Lincolnshire have said they wanted to “put drones on...
It was 56 years ago today that a 25-year Medical Research Council study confirmed that smoking caused cancer. Tobacco firms rejected the assertion as a ‘matter...
It’s depressing how many wealthy white investors advocate profiting from the deaths of poor and, to not put too fine a point on it, black people. Rich...
Increased summer temperatures caused by global warming could see weather related deaths in eastern parts of the US shoot up by as much as 22% in...
Dr Katharine Giles, whose research used satellites to better understand the changing make-up of polar regions, has died in a cycling accident in London. Giles, 35,...
Oxfam and Saferworld have called for stricter regulation within the global arms trade, “as conflicts continue to destroy lives worldwide”. Oxfam’s head of arms control Anna...
Samuel Johnson once said, “When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” So how would the threat...
British American Tobacco announced today that it has acquired CN Creative Limited, a UK-based start-up company that specialises in the development of e-cigarette technologies intended to...
With six days to go until our crowdfunding campaign ends, we’re exploring tenuous numerical links to the number of days left. This one isn’t overly tenuous,...