In response to a national emergency, the UK Government will often call a COBRA meeting to determine the best course of action to deal with a crisis. The acronym COBRA stands...

Federalist MEPs have been stunned by yesterday’s European vote as nearly half of Europe’s citizens gave the thumbs-down to any further integration. Their own Eurobarometer poll...

Pope Francis rounded off a whirlwind trip which saw him issue a unique invitation to Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to...

At the beginning of 2014, nextdaynews announced 12 predictions concerning news events that were likely to occur before the end of the year. One of the most unlikely ...

Australia is working overtime to keep up with the demands being made on its water supply. A significant lack of rainfall over the last decade has drained water...

MEPs are on tenterhooks across the EU as they face disgruntled voters, on May 22nd, who are itching to punish their representatives for not delivering on their aspirations...

Since the day Facebook went public, it's struggled to convince investors that it can make as much money as the world predicted it someday might. So far, the moneyed world...

Google has announced its purchase of Titan Aerospace, a maker of solar-powered drones, to bring the internet to the most remote parts of the world. It’s also a useful back-up....

The Chancellor, George Osborne, along with many economists, believe that 2014 will achieve a growth rate of 4%. But the continued squeeze in wages is a reminder of...

In 2008, Al Gore, the former Vice President and author of “An inconvenient truth” made a prediction, based on climate science, that the arctic ice would disappear by 2013. In fact, the....

Addressing a conference on the development of Russia’s shipbuilding capability in the Black Sea region, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that following....