US military base in central Okinawa, with a residential area in the background The Japanese island of Okinawa is the reluctant host of dozens of US military bases - and a row over moving an airfield has sparked an angry stand-off. Shuri Castle stands on a hill above the Okinawan capital, Naha. It used to be the seat of the Ryukyu kings, who ruled over an archipelago south of Japan and north of Tai
People who think more about their decisions have more brain cells in their frontal lobes People who think more about whether they are right have more cells in an area of the brain known as the frontal lobes. UK scientists, writing in Science, looked at how brain size varied depending on how much people thought about decisions. But a nationwide survey recently found that some people think too much
Julian Assange had been cited as saying the release of the allegations was "deeply disturbing" Sweden has cancelled an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on accusations of rape and molestation. The Swedish Prosecution Authority website said the chief prosecutor had come to the decision that Mr Assange was not suspected of rape but did not give any further explanation. The warrant
Justice Minister Keiko Chiba called for debate on the death penalty Japan has hanged two death row inmates, in the first executions since the new government took power last year. The two prisoners, both convicted killers, were hanged at the Tokyo Detention Centre. Justice Minister Keiko Chiba - who opposes the death penalty - witnessed the executions and announced the formation of a group to revie
The White House says the records refer to a period before the current US strategy came into effect More than 90,000 leaked US military records have been published on the website Wikileaks, reportedly revealing hidden details of the Afghanistan war. Three major news publications which have been shown the documents say they include unreported killings of Afghan civilians. The huge cache of classifie
Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998, has died at the age of 87, his publisher has announced. Saramago, a communist and atheist, only began to become recognised for his work in his fifties. One of his best-known novels is Blindness, written in 1995, which tells the story of a country whose entire population lose their sight. He had been due to appear at
The biannual Top 500 supercomputer list has alternative supercomputer powers. About this data: The data used to generate the interactive treemap visualisation come from a draft of the June 2010 TOP500 Supercomputing list., external This ranks most of the world's fastest supercomputers twice a year. There may be minor differences between this list and the final published list. The graphic allows yo
At least nine people have been killed after Israeli commandos stormed a convoy of ships carrying aid to the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army says. Armed forces boarded the largest vessel overnight, clashing with some of the 500 people on board. It happened about 40 miles (64 km) out to sea, in international waters. Israel says its soldiers were shot at and attacked with weapons; the activists say Isra
The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has said the organisation needs to learn from recent criticisms and modernise its workings. But despite making an error over Himalayan glacier melt in its landmark 2007 report, the panel's basic conclusions remain sound, he said. Rajendra Pachauri was speaking at the opening session of a UN-commissioned review into the IPCC's working
Post categories: Design Michael Smethurst | 14:03 UK time, Thursday, 29 January 2009 Designing and building data driven dynamic web applications the one web, domain driven, RESTful, open, linked data way For the past few months I've been touting a presentation around the BBC entitled 'How we make websites'. It's a compendium of everything our team has learned from long years developing /programmes
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