Iain Banks dies of cancer aged 59
Iain Banks was best known for his novels The Wasp Factory, The Crow Road and Complicity Author Iain Banks has died aged 59, two months after announcing he had terminal cancer, his family has said. Banks, who was born in Dunfermline, Fife, revealed in April he had gall bladder cancer and was unlikely to live for more than a year. He was best known for his novels The Wasp Factory, The Crow Road and
Anger over Justin Bieber's Anne Frank message
The singer's "belieber" comment was quoted on the Anne Frank House Facebook page Justin Bieber has caused outrage with his message in a guestbook at the Anne Frank Museum, saying he hoped the Holocaust victim would have been a fan. The 19-year-old pop idol wrote: "Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber." It has provoked fierce onlin
Atomic bond types discernible in single-molecule images
The bonds at centre appear shorter than those at the edges, as more electrons are present in them A pioneering team from IBM in Zurich has published single-molecule images so detailed that the type of atomic bonds between their atoms can be discerned. The same team took the first-ever single-molecule image in 2009 and more recently published images of a molecule shaped like the Olympic rings. The
'Insulting words' crime ditched
Mrs May told MPs that free speech needed to be balanced with action against widespread offence The crime of "insulting" someone through words or behaviour, which once led to the arrest of a student for asking a police officer whether his horse was gay, is to be dropped. Home Secretary Theresa May confirmed, external to MPs that the government would not seek to overturn a Lords amendment scrapping
Twitter accounts with child abuse images closed
Several private Twitter accounts have been disabled after they were revealed to contain indecent images of children. Some hacking groups are claiming to have unmasked them, the NSPCC said. Members of the public have reported the accounts to Greater Manchester Police and North Yorkshire Police, while Ceop - the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre - says it is "aware". The NSPCC asked pe
Japan election: Shinzo Abe and LDP in sweeping win - exit poll
Shinzo Abe looks set to be reappointed as prime minister five years after he resigned The conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Shinzo Abe has won the Japanese election, exit polls predict. The LDP, which enjoyed almost 50 years of unbroken rule until 2009, is projected to have an overall majority in the new parliament. Mr Abe has already served a Japan's Prime Minister between 2006 and 2
Japan's ninjas heading for extinction
Japan's era of shoguns and samurai is long over, but the country does have one, or maybe two, surviving ninjas. Experts in the dark arts of espionage and silent assassination, ninjas passed skills from father to son - but today's say they will be the last. Japan's ninjas were all about mystery. Hired by noble samurai warriors to spy, sabotage and kill, their dark outfits usually covered everything
Mozilla Firefox browser upgrade taken offline due to vulnerability
The latest version of Mozilla's Firefox browser has been taken offline after a security vulnerability was discovered. Users who had upgraded to version 16 were advised to downgrade to the previous safe release until Firefox developers released a fix. The vulnerability allowed "a malicious site to potentially determine which websites users have visited", Mozilla said. The non-profit company said th
Alan Turing: Inquest's suicide verdict 'not supportable'
Alan Turing, the British mathematical genius and codebreaker born 100 years ago on 23 June, may not have committed suicide, as is widely believed. <link> <caption>Turing expert Prof Jack Copeland has questioned</caption> <url href="http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.uk/pdf/general/popularscience/jackcopelandjune" platform="highweb"/> </link> the evidence that was presented at the 1954 inquest. He belie
Hyvinkaa shooting: Finland gunman in deadly rampage
Police recovered a rifle from the roof where the gunfire came from A gunman fired from the rooftop of a house in a southern Finnish town, killing two people and injuring seven others, the authorities have said. Police arrested an 18-year-old man suspected of the shootings in Hyvinkaa, 50km (30 miles) north of Helsinki. A man and a woman, both 18 years old, were killed in the incident. A police off
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