The World Wildlife Fund released a report warning that humanity would outstrip the planet's capacity to support life by 2050 and would have to colonize two new planets to keep up.
Stephen Hawking, the acclaimed scientist and writer, reignited the debate over genetic engineering yesterday by recommending that humans change their DNA through genetic modification to keep ahead of advances in computer technology and stop intelligent machines from 'taking over the world'.
The United States is exploring the development of a 'space-bomber' which could destroy targets on the other side of the world within 30 minutes.
While Israelis and Palestinians have been slugging it out on the ground with guns and stones, others have gone into battle with mouse and modem. Although cyber-attacks are not in themselves new, this is the first political conflict in which two sides have fought each other in such an organised way over the internet.