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The family of an elderly couple wrongly accused by a vigilante group of cruising for prostitutes has complained to the Privacy Commissioner.Auckland group Papatoetoe Reclaiming Our Streets wrote to Sa...

President Dmitry Medvedev's newly announced working group on non-commercial organizations should bring the restrictive law governing the operation of these groups into line with Russia's international human rights obligations, Human Rights Watch said today. The new group will hold its first official meeting on May 14, 2009. read more

Peers accuse organisations such as Greenpeace of being multinational corporations that peddle fearParts of the green movement have become hijacked by a political agenda and now operate like multinational corporations, according to two senior scientists and members of the House of Lords.The peers, who were speaking at an event in parliament on science policy, said they felt that in some areas green campaign groups were a hindrance to environmental causes.'Much of the green movement isn't a green movement at all, it's a political movement,' said Lord May, who is a former government chief scientific adviser and president of the Royal Society. He singled out Greenpeace as an environmental campaign group that had 'transmogrified' into one with primarily an anti-globalisation stance.'Maybe they are right, but I wish they would wear the uniform of the army they are fighting [under],' said May, adding that he used to be involved with Greenpeace in the 1970s.Greenpeace's chairman John Sauven sa

The engineering support services company outlined plans to slim down and focus on servicing its biggest customers like the Ministry of Defence more effectively

Zagreb - Tens of thousands of Croatian teachers embarked on a strike Wednesday after Prime Minister Ivo Sanader's government turned down their demand for a pay increase. Unions grouping school and university teachers want the government to reverse a ...

Editor's Note: Peggy Delaney is sailing on a newly refurbished research vessel, the JOIDES Resolution, that left Honolulu on March 10 with an international group of researchers on board. The ship, supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, conducts scientific investigations beneath the seafloor by drilling the ocean floor and retrieving long “cores” of mud for testing and data collection. This is her thirteenth blog post. To see all her posts, see "60 Seconds in the Mid-Pacific."SOMEWHERE IN THE MID-PACIFIC (April 29, 2009)--We are underway toward Hawaii now, with the JOIDES Resolution averaging at least 11 knots. I just stepped outside for a few minutes of my 3 A.M. break, and I got to thinking about the night sky, the science of the expedition, and life at home. [More]

Lifting the retirement age by two years will be less of a concern to older Australians than finding a job, a seniors group says. The retirement age will be gradually lifted to 67 years by 2023, under ...

A national group filed a federal lawsuit against a North Little Rock assisted-living center Tuesday alleging discrimination against a 75-year-old man it said was evicted from the facility because he has the virus that causes AIDS.

(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) A team of students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be spending part of the summer designing and starting to build solar-powered pasteurization systems for communities in rural Peru. The group of engineers was one of four student teams nationally to win a highly competitive SEED grant from nonprofit volunteer organization Engineers for a Sustainable World.