A claim that GM technology is helping deliver higher crop yields in Africa was wrong, the Government's chief scientist, Professor Sir David King, has been forced to admit.
Spring flowers face extinction after blooming in autumn puts them at risk of frost. It is a seasonal rush the bluebells and snowdrops could not resist joining - although they might come to regret it.
The £55bn taxpayers' bill to support Northern Rock outstrips education budget
Is this the beginning of the end of Belgium? The country's protracted political crisis shows no sign of coming to an end and the country remains without a government, even though elections were held in June.
The European Central Bank has allocated 348.67bn euros($502bn; £249bn) to banks at a below-market rate in a refinancing move to ease tightened credit markets.
An ancient Middle-Eastern empire had already mastered the art of biological warfare almost 3,500 years ago, according to an Italian scientist.
A "drunks-only" ambulance is mobilised on occasions of widespread drunkenness in central London.
Lavishing funds on Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority to achieve peace has been a mainstay of Western, including Israeli, policy since Hamas seized Gaza in June. But this open spigot has counterproductive results and urgently must be stopped.
If you need an example of how thoroughly national politics can still trump the notion of common European interest, look no further than the three-day meeting in Brussels of fisheries ministers that kicked off on Monday.
As the book business goes, Amity Printing is not unusually prolific. In the last 20 years it has printed some 50 million books; some publishers churn out that many in a year.
More than 100,000 young Britons may have been pushed into unemployment by the recent waves of economic immigrants from Eastern Europe, according to a new report by a leading economic thinktank.
Sterling faces the risk of a "perfect storm" next year as the housing bubble pops, interest rates tumble, and dwindling City revenues following the credit crunch expose the grim state of Britain's overstretched trade accounts.
President Bush on Monday tried to reassure an edgy public that the economy is "pretty good" despite the dreary mix of a failing housing market, a national credit crunch and surging energy costs.
ROME: In an "unforeseen and unprecedented" shift, the world food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to historic levels, the top food and agriculture official of the United Nations warned Monday.
It has been 50 years since scientists first created DNA in a test tube, stitching ordinary chemical ingredients together to make life's most extraordinary molecule.