Two names have hit the headlines in recent days. One of which we are all quite familiar with, the advertising social megalith Facebook and another company you may or may not know, Oculus VR. Facebook really needs no introduction, it dominates our world; phones, table...

In only a few months the world will mark exactly one hundred years since the beginning of the First World War. To many of us, this seems a long time ago and to even more of us it seems a world vastly unrecognisable from our own. But although we had not yet seen moder...

[dropcap size=big]V[/dropcap]irtually limitless energy and a world freed from scarcity has been the dream of human kind for millennia. In the mid 20th century this hallowed dream saw a potential reality emerge when the principle of fusion which powers every star in t...

Is an invasion of eastern Ukraine by Russian troops imminent? This seems to be the question on everyone’s mind tonight. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper alluded to such a possibility during his press conference with Ukrainian PM Yatseniuk in Kyiv today. Yesterd...

Today is a noteworthy day. Exactly 120 days ago a few hundred people set up a tiny protest camp on Kyiv’s Independence Square. On November 21, this small group of people was outraged at the sudden about-face of the Azarov government, and its refusal to sign the EU-Uk...

[dropcap size=big]U[/dropcap]ncovering facts such as the rationing of water in quantities of 500ml per day in scorching heat caused Amnesty International to label conditions inside Manus Island Detention Camp “Inhuman and Degrading.“ Photos are forbidden inside the c...