Denmark’s new and first ever fat tax will go into effect starting this Saturday as part of the efforts to fight the growing obesity in the country. According to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Europe’s obesity average of the total population is approximately 15% while slightly under 10% of the Danish population is obese. This...

The High Court of Justice has approved of the freezing of nearly £1.1 million in assets (the equivalent of approximately $1.8 million and €1.25 million) after the Financial Services Authority pointed out a source of market manipulation from several entities including Da Vinci Invest Ltd. and Mineworld Ltd. leading to individuals Szabolcs Banya, Tamas Pornye and Gyorgi...

Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates announced that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will be joining British Prime Minister David Cameron in his campaign to eradicate polio. Britain will be committing a range of £18 million to £37 million ($60 million) while Bill Gates in his announcement on the 3rd day of the last session of the annual meeting of the...

With the French president Nicolas Sarkozy at the head, the French government passed a bill that ‘banned’ veil-wearing or simply the wearing of the niqab and burqa in public. Some in the government including the Council of State, a major judicial body, advised against such “morally-ambiguous” bills on the religious attire of Muslim women. The bill...

On Wednesday, a solar-powered airplane succesfully completed its maiden flight of around an hour and twenty seven minutes at an altitude of nearly 4,000 feet. An impressive achievement in the field of aviation. Markus Scherdel, test pilot for the Solar Impulse. This propeller plane, the Solar Impulse, had taken off from Payerne airfield in Switzerland piloted by a German...

The unprecedented massive accumulation of gigantic piles of paper wealth by largely uneducated, ignorant, herdlike growing mass of people (from football players to entertainers, and scrap dealers, waste consultants, criminals) who blindly follow the “fashionable” trends created by the somewhat more cunning but equally stupid racketeers and their mercenaries like...