BREAKING NEWS Tuesday, January 1, 2013 11:19 PM EST House Passes Fiscal Deal, Averting Tax Increases and Spending Cuts Ending a climactic fiscal showdown in the final hours of the 112th Congress, the House late Tuesday passed and sent to President Obama legislation to avert tax increases on most Americans and prevent large cuts in Continue Reading →
Planet’s oldest fossils found in Pilbara, experts say Date January 1, 2013 – 11:27PM 346 reading now Read later Devin Powell inShare. Pin It Email article Print . The Pilbara discovery, if proven, could help Curiosity’s search for the building blocks of life on Mars. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists analysing Australian rocks have discovered traces of Continue Reading →
Macklin dole gaffe edit ‘a mistake’ SUE DUNLEVY News Limited Network January 02, 201312:00AM Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email Watch Macklin says dole is enough to live on As changes to Government payments for single parents take effect, the Minister for Families, Jenny Macklin, says she could live on the dole • Continue Reading →
BREAKING NEWS Tuesday, January 1, 2013 2:25 AM EST Senate Backs Legislation to Raise Taxes on Wealthiest Americans The Senate, in a pre-dawn vote two hours after the deadline passed to avert automatic tax increases, overwhelmingly approved legislation Tuesday that would allow tax rates to rise only on affluent Americans while temporarily suspending sweeping, across-the-board Continue Reading →
Annus Horribilis Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:47 PM PST 2012 was the worst year for the environment in living memory. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1st January 2013 It was the year of living dangerously. In 2012 governments turned their backs on the living planet, demonstrating that no chronic problem, however grave, will Continue Reading →
Wettest year ends with downpours Hundreds of Environment Agency flood alerts and warnings in place as New Year’s celebrations take place Share3 inShare.1 Email Maev Kennedy The Guardian, Monday 31 December 2012 19.13 GMT Flooding near the Yorkshire town of Boroughbridge in September. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Hours of rain continued across much of the Continue Reading →