Even some Tories have trouble stomaching the cuts that the UK government wants to make now.

Letting bars stay open later in the UK increased total alcohol consumption very little; but it led a significant fraction to occasionally go in for bigger binges.

Is there, I wonder, a way to discourage overdrinking?

New solar-powered street lamps provide surplus electricity as a side benefit.

Governments with a proper sense of urgency about coming climate mayhem would install these lamps in large quantities as a crash program.

US citizens: call on Obama's task force to advocate full tracing of seafood for commercial sale.

50,000 Australians demonstrated for compassion for asylum seekers.