Well, it's only taken thirteen years, but finally Radovan Karadzic has been arrested. And surprisingly, after years of being accused of sheltering him, it was the Serbian authorities who carried out the arrest.Serbia appeared to be moving towards raprochement with the international community. Milosevic was deposed and surrendered to the Hague, elections followed. But with the independence of Kosovo...

The Christian registrar who refused to carry out civil partnerships for gay couples has won her employment tribunal case.Islington Council need to appeal this as soon as possible, otherwise some very bad law will be created.Miss Ladelle claims that she was being bullied, and that her religious beliefs forbid her from carrying out civil partnership for gay couples.Perhaps they do. But her religious...

The Government has today announced a competition. They would like ideas from the general public of innovative ways that the terabytes of data the government has collected on us could be put to use. There's even a £20,000 cash prize.Here's my suggestion. How about not losing the information?On a related note, is the prize in any way related to this £20,000 prize?Tags: government data competition i...

Do you know how long I have waited for a news story like this?I have longed for the day when I could flick to the news and see a headline like this:Our planet will not be sucked into a black hole made in a new physics facility, a report concludes.That is AWESOME!!!Ahem. Back to being serious.Whilst I trusted that the Earth would not be in imminent danger - it would be extremely improbable for a bla...

OK, having done the BUPA race, I have my eyes on a half marathon - Run To The Beat.Another 10K run would be a good training run as part of this. And by coincidence, the end of August sees another 10K run - a global 10K run.The Nike+ Human Race, a 10K race pitting 24 cities around the world against each other.Might be fun...Tags: Nike Human Race 10K Run to the Beat running addiction...