The Telegraph: Until now all attempts to develop a male pill have failed with scientists working on a contraceptive jab for men given by doctors. But researchers in Israel have finally been able to create a oral pill that deactivates sperm before they reach the womb. And theyve developed a version that means it only [...]
Financial Times: Almost 6,060m below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico and 4,500m below the seabed, BP’s engineers are zeroing in on a narrow target: the 25cm-wide steel casing of its old Macondo well, which has been leaking oil since late April. The energy company hopes that two relief wells will soon hit the [...]
Some pig reaching for cookies you paid some chef to make as another pig checks them over The Hill: It’s possible that Republicans could end up filibustering the nomination of Elena Kagan, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee said today. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said Kagan had “serious deficiencies,” and that her confirmation [...]
The Telegraph: Tehran would need a year to enrich the uranium fully to produce a bomb and it would take “another year to develop the kind of weapon delivery system in order to make that viable,†Mr Panetta said. Sanctions imposed by the United Nations could help weaken Tehran’s government by creating economic problems, but [...]
Jerusalem Post: Russian president slams Teheran’s lack of transparency on nuke issue. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday called a CIA report that Iran had sufficient uranium to build two bombs “worrying,” AFP reported. “This information has to be checked, but such information is always worrying – and all the more so because the international [...]
Daily Mail: A die-hard Glastonbury fan refused to let a little thing like labour get in the way of a good time and gave birth to her first child during the music festival. First-time mother Victoria Iremonger, 30, realised she was about to go into labour when she arrived at the festival site in Somerset [...]
Politico: Robert Byrd, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, is in serious condition in a Washington-area hospital, according to aides to the West Virginia Democrat. In a statement Sunday, Byrd’s staff said the senator “was admitted to the hospital late last week, suffering from what was believed to be heat exhaustion and severe dehydration as [...]
Cory “Bring A Haitian Into Your Home” Ruth Maybe he’s afraid the influx of construction crews and aid workers will make the island capsize if we don’t get some folks out, or maybe, Obama-style, he makes his decisions based on race…and just who are the people this “Conservative” community organizer is referring to with the [...]
New York Times: TORONTO — Despite President Obama’s pitch at the summit meeting for developed nations here for continued stimulus measures to prevent another global economic downturn, the United States will go along with other leaders who are more concerned about rising debt and join in a commitment to cut their governments’ deficits in half [...]
