Flashback: U.S. Sold Black Hawk Helicopters to Mexico

The Daily Telegraph | The announcement came as she admitted that America’s “insatiable demand” for illegal drugs is to blame for much of the violence engulfing Mexico.

French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment

Telegraph | A 50-year mystery over the ‘cursed bread’ of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after discovering the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment.

Sugary Soft Drinks Lead to Diabetes

March 10, 2010 Telegraph.co.uk By Richard Alleyne More people now drink soft, sport and fruit drinks daily, and the increase has led to thousands more diabetes and heart disease cases over the past decade, according to research presented to the American Heart Association’s annual conference. The study estimates the increased consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks between 1990 and 2000 contributed

Brit Army of Spies Gets Police-style Powers

Daily Telegraph | Almost 1,700 people, including car park attendants and dog wardens, already have powers to hand out a string of fines.

Google’s EU warning over Street View privacy

London Telegraph | Google has been told by European Union data privacy regulators to warn people before it sends cameras out to take pictures for its Street View maps.

Rajendra Pachauri to defend handling of IPCC after climate change science row

Rajendra Pachauri, the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will defend his handling of a crisis that has shaken the world’s faith in his organisation at a meeting of environmental leaders in Bali. By Geoffrey Lean He will try to save his job and shore up support for the IPCC in the wake of the discovery of errors in its latest report. He is attending a special closed meeting of environment and climate ministers in the fringes of the annual assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Governing Council, the biggest such event since Copenhagen climate summit that ended in confusion and recriminations last December. The governments are publicly backing Dr Pachauri, who they re-elected unopposed less than 18 months ago – the EU said last night that he had “done a good job, in general” and “deserves full confidence”.  However privately, officials have expressed a wish that he will decide to step down before long. The IPCC was engulfed in crisis when it emerged that it had …

EU officials call for international conference to discuss Palestinian state

Palestine Telegraph | French President Nicolas Sarkozy has reiterated his call for the creation of a “viable” Palestinian state but has not ruled out the possibility the international community could recognise a new state before its borders were set.

Airport body scanners ‘may be unlawful’

London Telegraph | The use of body scanners at UK airports may be unlawful, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has warned, on grounds of both privacy and non-discrimination.

Control freaks want web licences to end bloggers’ anonymity

Daily Telegraph | It was inevitable that, sooner or later, the usual unholy alliance of government totalitarians and big business would attempt to end the democratic free-for-all that is the blogosphere.

Britain faces ‘oil crunch’ within five years, Richard Branson warns

Telegraph | Consumers face a spike in costs for heating, transport, food and other goods, according to the report entitled ”The Oil Crunch – a wake up call for the UK economy”.

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