Inbreeding in Britain’s Pakistani community is causing a surge in birth defects, environment minister Phil Woolas warned last night. Mr Woolas described the issue as “the elephant in the room” – too sensitive for anyone to mention.
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Wind-fuelled ’supergrid’ offers clean power to Europe
25 November, 2007 – 00:00
5,000-mile network could cut entire continent’s carbon output by a quarter
An audacious proposal to build a 5,000-mile electricity supergrid, stretching from Siberia to Morocco and Egypt to Iceland, would slash Europe’s CO2 emissions by a quarter, scientists say.
Bubble reveals secrets of how stars form
1 May, 2000 – 00:00
British astronomers have looked deep inside a distant galaxy for the first time to unravel the mystery of how stars are made.
Their observations revealed a gigantic magnetic pump funnelling cosmic dust into the centre of the galaxy, where it piles up until it forms a ball dense enough to spark a nuclear chain reaction. Jane [...]
War threatens BP pipeline project
8 January, 1995 – 00:00
THE RUSSIAN invasion of Chechnya has thrown a barricade in the path of a $10bn (pounds 6.7bn) oil project planned by British Petroleum and 10 partners in the Caucasus.
