By Will Dunham (Reuters) – Thousands of bone fragments discovered in a cave on the Tibetan Plateau in China are offering rare insight into the lives of Denisovans, the mysterious extinct cousins of Neanderthals and our own species, showing they hunted a wide range of animals from sheep to woolly rhinoceros in this high-altitude abode. […]
Julian Assange is a heroic figure for many campaigners against state spying and censorship but regarded as a malicious hacker and danger to national security by his critics. The enigmatic WikiLeaks founder was born Julian Paul Hawkins in Queensland, Australia, to artist Christine Hawkins and John Shipton, an anti-war activist, on July 3rd, 1971. The […]
Royal Mail dates back to the Tudors. It has been operating a postal service in England since the reign of Henry VIII. Now this most British of institutions is on the brink of being sold to a Czech billionaire, Daniel Křetínský, raising fears about the fate of thousands of workers and a key national service. […]