Nuclear power will remain the cheapest way for the UK to grow its low-carbon energy supply for at least a decade, according to government advisers. But renewables should provide 30-45% of the nation’s energy by 2030, says the Committee on Climate Change (CCC). Its new report suggests ministers may want […]
The killing of Osama bin Laden is a “vigilante” act of “vengeance” that undermines the rule of law, according to leading clerics in the Church of England. Three bishops have added their voices to the debate over the legitimacy of the operation that resulted in the death of the unarmed […]
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS Published: May 7, 2011 23:34 Updated: May 7, 2011 23:35 JEDDAH: Saudi authorities have refuted a BBC report claiming that the Zamzam well in Makkah is polluted and that drinking the holy water could cause diseases such as cancer. Zuhair Nawab, president of […]
Protesters demonstrating yesterday, outside the US embassy in London, against the recent killing of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan by US military personnel. Photo: Leon Neal/AFP More than one hundred Islamic extremists rallied outside the US embassy in London yesterday to vent their fury at Washington over the […]
By MOHAMMED MAR’I | ARAB NEWS RAMALLAH: A top Israeli military officer canceled a trip to Britain out of fear he would be arrested, a report said on Thursday. The Israel Radio said that Maj. Gen. Yohanan Locker, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s military secretary, decided not to join the premiere […]
Over the last decade, 67 Britons were killed in the September 11 attacks in 2001, 26 died in the Bali bombings a year later and 52 lost their lives in the July 7 attacks of 2005. Hundreds of soldiers fighting in Afghanistan have also been killed in a conflict sparked […]
The leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, will use his Easter message later to attack “aggressive secularism”. It was something Pope Benedict warned about on his state visit to Britain last year. Cardinal O’Brien will say the enemies of Christianity want to “take God from the […]