Rank Name Organization Age 1 Hu Jintao President People’s Republic of China 67 2 Barack Obama President United States of America 49 3 Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud King Saudi Arabia 86 4 Vladimir Putin Prime Minister Russia 58 5 Pope Benedict XVI Pope Roman Catholic Church 83 6 Angela Merkel Chancellor Germany 56 7 David Cameron Prime Minister United Kingdom 44 8 Ben Bernanke Chairman Federal Reserve 56 9 Sonia Gandhi President Indian National Congress 63 10 Bill Gates Co-Chair Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 55 11 Zhou Xiaochuan Governor People’s Bank of China 62 12 Dmitry Medvedev … Continue reading Forbes ‘POWER’ list! (These are YOUR LEADERS and responsible for YOUR FUTURE!)

Labour minister broke election law: re-run ordered Two High Court judges today ordered a re-run of this year’s General Election campaign in Oldham East and Saddleworth after ruling that Labour’s Phil Woolas knowingly made false statements about an opponent. Martin Beckford and Peter Hutchison Mr Woolas was accused of fighting a ‘dirty and dishonest’ campaign full of ‘lies, smears and totally false allegations’ Photo: GETTY The former immigration minister broke electoral law with what had been described as a “toxic” dirty tricks campaign against the Liberal Democrat candidate Elywn Watkins. His election win in May has now been declared void. Mr … Continue reading Phil Woolas bashed Muslims to win election – re-run ordered

Artificial Ape Man: How Technology Created Humans Archaeologist and anthropologist Timothy Taylor explains how a long-vanished artefact explains human evolution and led to “survival of the weakest.” You begin your book The Artificial Ape by claiming that Darwin was wrong. In what way? Darwin is one of my heroes, but I believe he was wrong in seeing human evolution as a result of the same processes that account for other evolution in the biological world – especially when it comes to the size of our cranium. Darwin had to put large cranial size down to sexual selection, arguing that women found brainy … Continue reading Darwin was wrong?

Coffin technologies that protect you from being buried alive In the eighteenth century, rumors swirled about people accidentally buried alive when they lapsed into a deathlike state from cholera. As a result, the safety coffin was invented. Here’s how it worked. From those eighteen century fears there arose a thriving cottage industry of inventors who promised to protect the seemingly-dead from being prematurely interred. Above you can see one of the more popular kinds of safety coffin, sometimes called an “escape vault,” because each grave door was built as a hatch that could be opened from the inside. You can still … Continue reading Will you be buried alive?

by Jennifer Carpenter Numbers game. In a new study, volunteers learned to ascribe value to strange symbols, such as the ones shown here. Credit: Adapted from Kadosh et al., Current Biology, 20 (23 November 2010) Need to improve your math skills or do your taxes faster? Try zapping your brain with electricity. Researchers have shown that administering a small electrical charge to the brain may enhance a person’s ability to process numbers for up to 6 months. The team says the approach, which it claims is harmless, could one day restore numerical skills in people suffering from degenerative diseases or stroke, … Continue reading Brain Zaps Improve Math

ScienceShot: Destroy Earth From the Comfort of Your Computer by David Grimm Credit: Information Technology at Purdue image/Michele Rund Want to demolish Earth? A new Web site allows you to choose the form of the destructor. Just type in a few variables such as diameter, density, and velocity and Impact: Earth! will send a comet or asteroid hurtling toward our planet. Lest you be unsatisfied with a simulation of a massive rock barreling down on us, the Web site also provides data on the aftermath, including the size of the crater, the extent of the fireball, and even the height of the tsunami … Continue reading For US Tealiban/Baptist Fanatics: Destroy Earth to Bring Rapture!

The £30,000 hole in the wall: Thief spends three hours smashing through brick wall in daring jewellery heist By DAILY MAIL REPORTER A thief spent more than three hours smashing his way through a brick wall before carrying out a £30,000 raid on a jewellers. He chipped away at the wall in Nottingham city centre removing around 40 bricks until he had carved out a hole big enough to crawl through and enter the store. The masked raider was seen on CCTV arriving at JW Rose jewellers at 3am on Tuesday morning before he sat down, pulled out a hammer and … Continue reading Thief spends three hours smashing through brick wall for Gold

New York to Sydney in just 2hrs 30mins: Nasa to develop ‘hypersonic’ passenger jets that travel at five times the speed of sound By DANIEL BATES NASA is planning to build hypersonic jets that will fly through the Earth’s atmosphere and slash flight times around the world to a few hours at most. The US space agency wants to manufacture a craft that would travel at five times the speed of sound and bring in a new age of aircraft akin to a turbo-charged Concorde. Travelling at such speed would reduce the flight time from New York to Sydney to around … Continue reading New York to Sydney in just 2hrs 30mins

Police arrest passenger who boarded plane in Hong Kong as an old man in flat cap and arrived in Canada a young Asian refugee By DAILY MAIL REPORTER It reads like a plotline from the hi-tech Mission: Impossible spy films. Elderly white man in flat cap, brown cardigan and thin-rimmed specs boards plane in Hong Kong and alights in Canada as a young Asian man. However, the suspicions of eagle-eyed staff as he was boarding were aroused by his strangely youthful hands. And when the old man didn’t disembark the flight at Canada’s Vancouver airport, police swooped and discovered an astonishing … Continue reading How TERRORISTS can get in!