Health secretary asks officials to look into claims that some doctors are arranging illegal terminations An investigation into claims that some doctors are granting women illegal abortions based on the sex of their unborn baby has been launched by the Department of Health. It has been sparked by an...
You probably heard the big news about Canonical’s plans to build Ubuntu for Android devices. It’s something I’m extremely excited about and have been tinkering with myself since the days of the Nexus One. This latest — and finally official — iteration resembles (and...
Singh after he won his legal battle with the British Chiropractic Association, which sued him for saying it ‘happily promotes bogus treatments’. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA The president of the British Chiropractic Council, Richard Brown, recently gave his account of the much publicised libel suit...
The popular microblogging company, which processes more than a billion tweets a week, is set to hit the milestone figure later today, claims Twopcharts, a third party Twitter analysis company. However, the 500 million relates to the total number of registered accounts, and fails...
Nicolas Sarkozy calls death of Colvin and photographer Remi Ochlik an assassination, and says: ‘This regime must go’ The deaths of veteran Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik, and the rising toll of civilian dead...
Your article on the new exhibition at Tate Britain entitled Picasso and Modern British Art (How Picasso helped British art go modern, 14 February) began with Vanessa Bell’s enthusiastic response to Picasso. Bell achieves a brief mention at the exhibition itself, and that...
Nuance today announced that its popular Dragon Go! app for Android and iOS has been updated with direct access to travel website Expedia. Using the app’s voice commands, users can now look up hotel reservations, current airfare, or user reviews for the thousands of...
Carlene Thomas-Bailey Protesters at Capitol Square in Richmond, Virginia. Photograph: Bob Brown/AP One of the hundreds of women who protested outside the Virginia State Capitol wore a T-shirt which read “Say No to State-Mandated Rape”, in reference to one of two new bills set...
The Japanese electronics giant hopes the new PlayStation Vita portable gaming console, which goes on sale Wednesday, will convince users to play more video games on dedicated devices, rather than turning to the internet and mobile phones. The console features a diverse toolset for...
