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Experts had claimed that the lifetime limit could be capped at £100,000 – a figure that seasoned savers may have already reached – but that has not transpired.
An explosion at a chemical factory in central Japan on Thursday killed at least five workers and injured 17 others,…
Japan’s Cabinet on Tuesday adopted a national security strategy and revised defense plans that increase defense spending 5 percent over the next five years and call for a larger role in mainta…
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A federal trial judge in Washington says the NSA’s “bulk metadata” program likely violates the Fourth Amendment rights of American citizens.
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AUSTIN — While Texas officials insisted Tuesday that no decisions have been made about the future of football coach Mack Brown, a well-connected UT source said Brown is likely to step down this week after 16 seasons with the Longhorns. After Brown’s expected resignation was reported first by Orangebloods.com, UT athletic director Steve Patterson issued a statement Tuesday afternoon saying Brown had not resigned and that “we continue to discuss the future of Texas football.” Multiple UT sources said Brown, who was on a recruiting trip in Florida on Tuesday, hoped to meet with school president Bill Powers before announcing a decision. After leaving North Carolina to become the Longhorns’ coach in December 1997, Brown brought together a fractured fan…
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By Tom Heneghan PARIS (Reuters) – The French theatre, opera and film director Patrice Chereau, who mounted one of the most famous productions of Richard Wagner’s “Ring” cycle in Bayreuth in the 1970s, has died at the age of 68. Chereau, who was preparing a production of Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” when he succumbed to lung cancer, was a restless innovator who began directing at high school in Paris and never looked back. …
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Patrick Drum was tired of seeing sex offenders continue to hurt children. So he decided to kill them.
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Supercharging our immune systems with supplements seems to be a national obsession. But which supplements – if any – can help keep us healthy in the winter months?
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a354529e595522a8b.preview 300 150×150 Major acts announced for Country Thunder 2014; tickets on sale nowJason Aldean and Miranda Lambert will return to Country Thunder in April for the 2014 installment of the four-day festival.
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Jamie Foxx’s Electro is the web-slinger’s central foe in ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2,’ out in May.
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Hurricane-force gusts hit Scotland on Thursday, causing a fatal truck accident, halting all trains and leaving tens of thousands of homes without electricity. Much of northwestern Europe brace…
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Rampage let one get away in shootout
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The notion that someone can be obese yet still healthy is a myth, say researchers, who found that obesity carries a higher risk of premature death compared to that of normal-weight people, regardless of cholesterol, blood pressure and blood-sugar readings.
The following list represents the most viral tracks on Spotify, based on the number of people who shared it divided by the number who listened to it, from Monday, Nov. 25, to Sunday, Dec. 2, v…
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The ancient Roman city to rise and fall again in new movie.
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Scammers are targeting those who want to chase huge returns with offers of investments in carbon credits, diamonds, wine or shares that can be worthless.
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Dec. 4 – 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now Big data startup DataSift has closed a fresh $42 million round of funding, the company announced today. DataSift’s platform allows businesses and other organizations to extrapolate social data ;…
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(Reuters) – Actor Tom Hanks has said that he has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the metabolic disease. Hanks, 57, told late night talk show host David Letterman on Monday that he had been battling high blood sugar for some time. “I went to the doctor, and he said, ‘You know those high blood-sugar numbers you’ve been dealing with since you were 36? Well, you’ve graduated! You’ve got type 2 diabetes, young man,'” Hanks said on CBS network’s “Late Show with David Letterman. …
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A noted federal appeals courts judge tries to soft-shoe last week’s filibuster reform—and ends up sounding like a partisan miffed about the restoration of a fully-populated judiciary.
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Alcoholism could be in our DNA, experts have suggested, after a gene linked to excessive drinking was discovered by scientists.
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