Four in 10 think there’s too much swearing on TV
Two-thirds of over-65s claim bad language has gone too far on television Women more worried than men about amount of explicit material shown More than four in 10 believe there is too much violence on small screen Research carried out by watchdog Ofcom following number of complaints There is too much swearing on TV say four in ten viewers, while More...
New Studies Link Earthquakes With Oil, Gas Drilling
New scientific findings released Tuesday linked earthquakes to the practice of injecting wastewater from oil and gas operations deep underground, adding to a growing consensus among researchers that energy development More...
Syria Death Toll Reported to Rise By 10,000 in Less Than 2 Months
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The death toll in the three-year Syrian conflict has risen to about 162,000, an increase of more than 10,000 in less than two months, according to an antigovernment monitoring group that is one More...
British hate preacher managed London strip club
British hate preacher Abu Hamza told his U.S. terror trial Wednesday how he once jointly managed a London strip club in his quest to live a Western, movie-style life. Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, 56, better known in Britain More...
Justice for Victims of Terrorism
While extremist such as Qasim Al Hashmi and Abdel Raouf Al-Shayeb , who were recently arrested on 30th April 2014 on suspicion of encouragement of terrorism and under the Terrorism Act 2006 , and associated networks More...
‘No one should have to face cancer alone’
It is now two months since I was diagnosed with cancer. I am already well into the second series of chemotherapy treatment. Thus far I have been spared any noticeable side-effects. The fact that a battle is taking More...
Democracy & The Media: Do Today’s Media Fulfill Their Role In A Democracy?
“A democracy is only to be achieved once the voter is informed and educated to the extent where they are capable of understanding key political issues.” Author: Fazeli Hamed International Politics Researcher, University of Leicester The More...
The Psychological Benefits of Political Participation
This paper asks whether political participation confers psychological benefits. Four hypotheses were tested: that involvement in volunteer activities reduces subsequent psychological distress, that resisting perceived More...
How can six GCC countries implement a single currency
Sultan Alshammari, Economic Department, Social Science School ,Southampton University. In order to achieve a single currency union by the year 2014, many steps have been taken to achieve this objective, The fact More...
Interracial Contact and the Own Race Bias in Face Recognition
“This study investigates the own race bias phenomenon; people recall faces from their own race better than faces from another race. It focuses on the own race bias explanation of interracial contact; More...