The rush towards biofuels is theatening world food production and the lives of billions of people, the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser said yesterday.

Increasingly there are indications that the uses of wireless technologies have been developed to target an individual's biological body, with specific focus upon the neuronal functioning of the brain.

A California appeals court ruling clamping down on homeschooling by parents without teaching credentials sent shock waves across the state this week, leaving an estimated 166,000 children as possible truants and their parents at risk of prosecution.

JERUSALEM - An Israeli-Arab terrorist group that says it works for Hezbollah has claimed credit for today's mass shooting attack inside a Jerusalem rabbinical seminary that killed at least eight Jewish students.

Should Tesco ban free plastic bags? The answer is blowing in the wind. Pictures taken by or near the company's stores show trees, fences and hedges strewn with a blizzard of flimsy carriers. Yet Britain's biggest supermarket chain defiantly refuses to joi

More than 60 years after it was pushed to the edge of extinction, one of North America's rarest birds, the whooping crane, faces new danger from environmentally-friendly wind farms, conservationists warned.