Iranian cleric: Women who wear revealing clothing cause earthquakes
Women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes, a senior Iranian cleric has said.
Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi's comments follow a warning by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that a quake is certain to hit the capital Tehran and that many residents should relocate.

Voters in Redditch 'will oust Jacqui Smith'
Jacqui Smith was voted in as Redditch MP in 1997
The people of Redditch want a new MP and are ready to say goodbye to Jacqui Smith, the Conservative and Liberal Democrat candidates for the town say

Lord Monckton throws his safari helmet in the ring as Ukip candidate
One of the world's best-known climate sceptics has registered as a candidate for a Scottish constituency in the general election

Brown: We need global levy on banks
Gordon Brown comments on bankers' bonuses and regulation: "This is probably one of the worst cases we have seen."

Why rising inflation means more pain for us all
Today's higher than expected rise in prices adds to the risks policy-makers may get it wrong and throw the recovery off course

Airspace lockdown could stall UK food supplies
There is growing concern that the ongoing airspace lockdown, after the volcanic eruption in Iceland created a volcanic ash cloud, could impact upon food supplies to the UK. The food chain is a very complicated issue even though consumers only see the end result and an increase in travel time, cost and lack of availability could filter through to create upwards pricing pressure on UK food imports. This would then have the potential to impact upon the rate of inflation and could, if the situation lasts much longer, become a major problem

Public sector job cuts of 500,000 probable, CIPD analysis warns
Half a million public sector jobs could be shed over the next five years as the new government begins to tackle the £167bn deficit - dwarfing any assessment the current political parties are willing to make, the CIPD has warned.

Global water crisis 'will see food prices rocket'
A worldwide water crisis in the next decade could cause British food prices to soar and damage the economy, a study warns

Food crisis on the horizon
There was a shortage of food during the 1960s prompting the then Prime Minster, Lal Bahadur Shastri, to the appeal to people to forego food once a week. They did obey his genuine appeal. There was no significant number of hungry people then as we have now, with 250 million Indians going to bed without food. The level of poverty and hunger has multiplied several-fold in the last five decades, so much so that India ranks 66th among 88 countries in the hunger index. A loud warning bell has been sounded by Ban-Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, on the global food crisis. The failure of the World Food Summit held in Rome in November 2009 was unfortunate. It showed the least concern of many governments to the serious problem of food crisis and hunger around the world.

New Global Warming Alarmism from LA Times: ‘The World is Running Short on Air Pollution’
We have now reached the apex of “heads I win, tails you lose” global warming-alarmism. In his April 18 op-ed for the LA Times, author Eli Kintisch warned that “the world is running short on air pollution, and if we continue to cut back on smoke pouring forth from industrial smokestacks,” global warming consequences could be “profound.”