Alexander Williams

“What seems to be clincher on this is the review system, which attempts to learn with at “three dimensional rating system” exactly the style of news you’re interested in.  After you’re done setting up your complex filtering requirements, you can more...

“Russian MiG-29 shoots Georgian UAV”

"Octopus" meaning "eight-legged", it would be similar to talking about a "three-wheeled bicycle". What this picture depicts, therefore, is a hexapus. Henry the Hexapus - as he has been christened by his keepers - is a resident of Blackpool Sea more...

A man who believed he bore the "mark of the beast" used a circular saw to cut off one hand, then he cooked it in the microwave and called 911, authorities said.

An open/crowd-sourced online journalism site. Interesting because they actually have a central assignment desk from which you can check out a task, like writing an article or interviewing someone, and just do THAT task.

tiinker is an intelligent news aggregator, tiinker learns what kinds of articles you like and adapts to show you the most interesting stories from all over the web.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has added ghosts, monsters and other things that go bump in the night to its list of banned video and audio content in an intensified crackdown ahead of the Beijing Olympics.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Igor Volodin believes vodka is no more harmful than chocolate. He is proud to be the first Russian to produce the spirit in a special women's version, designed to be sipped with salad after a workout in more...

For a year from September 2005, under the nose of the Panthéon's unsuspecting security officials, a group of intrepid "illegal restorers" set up a secret workshop and lounge in a cavity under the building's famous dome. Under the supervision of more...

The RIAA has quickly become one of the most disliked organizations in the world. Working ostensibly with the interests of the artists in mind, the organization has single-handedly instituted a policy of lawsuits and education in an attempt to curb more...

LONDON (Reuters) - Children playing on a Scottish beach discovered a woman's severed head in a plastic bag, police said on Tuesday.

According to Robert Toggweiler of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University and Joellen Russell, assistant professor of biogeochemical dynamics at the University of Arizona -- two prominent climate modellers -- the computer models that show polar ice-melt cooling more...

IN a cold sweat, I was led away by the jackbooted and armed North Korean border guards to a bleak side room. My crime was that I’d disobeyed strict orders and taken pictures of the Stalinist dictatorship’s long-suffering people and more...

“But anyone concerned about an imminent impact should rest easy. Scientists welcomed the German teenager's enthusiasm but have pointed to a number of errors in his work. And reports that Nasa has put its hands up and admitted errors (repeated more...

The BBC guide on how to shoot news, etc.