THE BIG RETORT

Recently a homeless man who wandered the streets of Utah pushing a shopping trolley was tracked down by a private detective. He had some mon...

 The 2012 Olympic torch has been unveiled by that creative London design team Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby. But was the inspiration for th...

Pakistani leaders have protested that the country's sovereignty has been violated by the US following a series of drone strikes that hav...

The former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Khan, is due to appear in a New York court for his arraignment, and ha...

An international team at the CERN institute in Switzerland has managed to create 300 atoms of "anti-hydrogen" and stop them from c...

German diners may be both relieved and concerned that the recent E.coli outbreak may have been narrowed down to a single suspect - sprouts. ...

Have we been subjected to the S-factor? With reports in the Daily Mail that Cheryl Cole has been invited back on board X-Factor USA one wond...

My how the sands of time 'flies' for dictators. It was after all only two years ago that Muammar Gaddafi, marking the 40th anniversa...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is he? It has been claimed that Dominique Strauss-Kahn (note the hyphenated surname) is the well-to-do son of G...

A transcript of a message left on the mobile phone of Bob Crow reveals for the first time that the Union leader has been hacked... by the  N...

Will there, one wonders, be any quarry stone left unturned with the public‘s right to know - in a dwindling band of countries abbreviated to...

When TheBigRetor t conducted an investigation into the increased use of statins in its office diet, it came up with a forgetful medical prof...

VINCENT TABAK The new suspect arrested following the murder of Joanna Yeates wrote of starting a new life in England. Thirty-two year-old Vi...

Carrying on from my last posting into the abduction and murder of Joanna Yeates , isn't it about time? TheBigRetort ... The murder of ...

Eerily, at the Tesco checkout Jo is illuminated in the screen of a man who is also shopping nearby. A reflection of guilt? Was the man in t...

Somewhere in the cosmos a tiny blue planet receives an alien signal. A researcher writes "Wow!" Nearly forty years lapse. It quick...

A science paper predicts that a nearby red-star system known as Gliese 581 is the likely candidate for an extrasolar habitable world. Two ...