Dead Man Elected In Ultimate Political Comeback

Mayor Harry Stonebraker has been re-elected to a fourth term in the small town of Winfield in Missouri, about a month after his death, with 90% of the votes. Similarly in Missouri's 2000 U.S. Senate race, Democrat candidate Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash a few weeks before the election, but still defeated Republican John Ashcroft. Read more: Dead Man Elected In Ultimate Political...

Kremlin Kids: We Launched the Estonian Cyber War

Moscow's youth movement Nashi ("Ours") claims responsibility for the 2007 cyber attacks on Estonia. Read more: Kremlin Kids: We Launched the Estonian Cyber...

How to Defend Earth Against an Asteroid Strike

This sounds like something from a science fiction movie, but it is a real threat to the whole planet. It can happen any time. A medium sized asteroid of a few kilometers in  diameter crashing into the Earth can completely destroy our civilization and exterminate the whole human race, just like it happened to the dinosaurs. But fortunately there are some ways to prevent all this. The human race is at the point that it can prevent it's own extinction. There are numerous ways of deflecting...

Quarter of state databases “should be scrapped”

A quarter of government databases in the United Kingdom are said to be fundamentally flawed and probably illegal: Quarter of state databases "should be...