Filed under: United Kingdom, Airlines, Airports, News The UK has a bit of a history when it comes to airports getting in the way of your vacation plans. London Heathrow airport is where I've spent many a night waiting for air traffic to get back to normal while they attempt to fix whatever was inter...

Independent: I have heard that the Gaia theory means that the Earth is alive. What does that mean, exactly? Roger Middleton, Chester The Earth system (Gaia) shares many attributes with a living cell; it metabolises, it responds to changes in its environment, it can die, and it reduces its internal e...

Independent: I have heard that the Gaia theory means that the Earth is alive. What does that mean, exactly? Roger Middleton, Chester The Earth system (Gaia) shares many attributes with a living cell; it metabolises, it responds to changes in its environment, it can die, and it reduces its internal e...

Everyone seems to be struggling for money right now, don’t they? Everywhere you turn. There’s nothing more isolating than discovering you’ve got no money, or not enough money to get you through to pay day if you’re lucky enough to have a job. But remember, the very rich are f...

Times (UK): The survival of honeybees is under threat from an unknown army of 20,000 beekeepers who keep hives as a hobby. In a hard-hitting report today, the National Audit Office (NAO) suggests that unless these amateurs are identified and taught how to spot disease in bees, the country's food pro...

Times (UK): The beaver is a gentle, retiring creature. He's a rodent lumberjack and he's OK: he works all night and he sleeps all day. And he makes a lovely waterproof hat. But this shy herbivore has now become the focus of a ferocious battle, at the very moment the wild beaver is returning to these...

The UK media, surprisingly, has been all over President Obama the last week or so after the bungled handling of Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s visit to the US by Obama officials - and Obama himself. The Telegraph has apparently discovered the root of the problem: Barack Obama is in over his hea...

Times (UK): The beaver is a gentle, retiring creature. He's a rodent lumberjack and he's OK: he works all night and he sleeps all day. And he makes a lovely waterproof hat. But this shy herbivore has now become the focus of a ferocious battle, at the very moment the wild beaver is returning to these...

Times (UK): The beaver is a gentle, retiring creature. He's a rodent lumberjack and he's OK: he works all night and he sleeps all day. And he makes a lovely waterproof hat. But this shy herbivore has now become the focus of a ferocious battle, at the very moment the wild beaver is returning to these...

Family and friends have disowned him, and the British authorities are suspicious of his religious conversion by Reza Mohammadi guardian.co.uk, Friday 6 March 2009 07.00 GMT 'Many people in Afghanistan have turned to the faith of Jesus Christ in recent years. A few of them have done so openly, though...