London’s tube has been described as creaking, overcrowded and overpriced, but ultimately it serves a purpose; somewhat efficiently, it ferries thousands upon thousands of people around one of the world’s most popular cities every day. Almost everyone who has lived in or visited London will...

When cyclone Sidr crashed into Bangladesh the country found itself propelled into the limelight of the western media with yet another bad news story. Within hours of the story breaking my phone started beeping with messages asking if I was ok and if I was going to remain in this ‘devastated’...

Last month the British Sunday Mirror, reporting on a forthcoming BBC documentary, revealed that the 1994 edition of our Middle East guide had been used for planning the Iraq invasion. ‘Former American ambassador Barbara Bodine, who was given the job of helping to reconstruct Iraq, said: “It...

In the tradition of Thanksgiving, George W. Bush has bestowed a presidential pardon on one lucky turkey, allowing it to live out the remainder of its days pecking around Magic Kingdom Park at Disney World. It’s predicted around 45 million turkeys will be eaten this Thanksgiving, so May, the “chosen...

Unless they’ve been on the moon for the last year no Londoner could have escaped the hype and publicity surrounding the launch of Eurostar’s first carbon neutral service from its new home at St Pancras International on Wednesday 14th November 2007. Not being able to turn down the chance...

Australia: blue skies, big open brown spaces, lots and lots of minerals and one, particularly nasty one… Chrysotile was once mined to make asbestos - a popular, cheap housing material used in Australia in the 50s, 60s and 70s. Now, it’s widely known that asbestos is highly toxic and leads...