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Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole and leave the tar sand in the land," said Nnimmo Bassy, Friends of the Earth International chief, in his message at the opening of the People's Summit, Klimaforum...

The Pentagon’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) offered a $40,000 (£24,350) prize to the first person to locate ten big, red balloons raised on tethers across America on Saturday, from Portland, Oregon, to Miami, Florida. The goal was to...

Evidence of mass cannibalism in which even children and unborn babies were on the menu has been uncovered in Germany by archaeologists. Analysis of 7,000-year-old bones dug up at Herxheim in south-west Germany suggest the region was a centre for...

Letters Darwin stood on the shoulders of giants Why express surprise that this year we have been celebrating Charles Darwin and his Origin of Species, but little about Alfred Russel Wallace ( Letters , 3 December)? The simple answer is...

Money-saving expert Martin Lewis has launched a service to cut the cost of song downloads, threatening Apple's iTunes dominance of online music. Customers enter the title they wish to buy and Tunechecker.com scans prices at its suppliers and lists the...

Social networking site Facebook said it has formed an advisory board comprising five Internet safety organizations to consult on issues related to online safety. Facebook plans to regularly meet board members to review existing safety resources it provides its users,...

Re “ A Lost European Culture, Pulled From Obscurity ” (Dec. The enigmatic look of the seated figure known as the “Thinker,” from the Hamangia culture in what is now Romania, speaks directly to the modern viewer.