George Herbert

Gullible Internet users have reportedly been tricked into drowning their iPhones after a fake Apple advert began circulating on social media claiming that the new iOS7 software upgrade made the phone waterproof. Furious posts have appeared on…

Following the announcement by the Syrian government on Monday night that they have accepted a Russian proposal that they hand over their entire chemical weapons stocks to international control; momentum towards a U.S.-led military strike may be…

The West's response to the Syrian crisis is like "a monkey with a grenade," according to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. How far along the evolutionary chain U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel stands is, perhaps, a matter for debate, but by…

An intern with Bank of America's investment banking arm is reported to have died of a seizure after working 21-hour-days for three days in a row in order to impress his boss. Moritz Erhardt (21), from Germany, was nearing the end of a highly-paid…

The U.S. Justice Department is suing to prevent the planned merger of American Airlines and U.S. Airways on the grounds that it would undermine competition within the aviation industry. Share prices in American Airlines dropped dramatically…

What do McDonald’s and Buckingham Palace have in common? Both use zero-hour contracts, where employees need not be used at all, and therefore their monthly income may fluctuate significantly. Until this week, such contracts were common but ignored.…

It's been another embarrassing couple of weeks for Mayor of London Boris Johnson. First he attracted the ire of feminists by telling the Malaysian prime minister that women go to University to find husbands, then it was revealed that the contract…

Two important bits of news for you. Firstly, The Rolling Stones — now in their Golden Jubilee year — have headlined at the Glastonbury Music Festival. Secondly, Edward Snowden has reversed his decision to seek asylum in Russia after Vladimir Putin…

Three former Bank of America employees have accused the bank of lying to customers to prevent them from successfully applying for the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), forcing them into foreclosure. While foreclosures can have devastating…

Bashar Al-Assad’s army and his Hezbollah allies have retaken the strategic border town of Qusayr. The victory is significant for three reasons. Firstly, the rebels have used Qusayr to enable the flow of supplies from Lebanon. Secondly, rebel control…

"Anonymous Prepares to Enter the News Business." This headline may seem almost meaningless, but in fact it's hugely culturally important. You see, Anonymous is not the same as anonymous, and it also doesn’t exist in the way you may think it does. We…

On Wednesday the story broke that eight suspected insurgents have been detained for between eight and 14 months without trial in Camp Bastion, the main British military base in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. British lawyers have launched habeas…

On Saturday, twice-widowed Madina Aliyeva walked up to a group of police and exploded. 15 people were wounded in the blast near the Interior Ministry in Makhachkala, the provincial capital of Dagestan, in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region.…

"We will not give in to terror," Prime Minister David Cameron said in the aftermath of the killing of British military drummer Lee Rigby. However, is stabbing a soldier to death an act of terror? In an excellent article in the Guardian Glenn…

One of the killers stands square to the camera, drenched in blood with meat-cleaver in hand. In a second photo the other killer still holds his knife, but is being confronted by an absurdly normal looking young woman — just another Londoner going…

Apple became successful not just by making good products, but by making cool products. It isn’t so easy, however, to be cool while trying to explain to a Senate committee why you have been running a scheme allowing subsidiary companies to pay a…

Last week a prominent British lawyer wrote her way into a whole world of trouble by taking the side of a bunch of old celebrities accused of sexual abuse of children. Strange as it may sound, she has a couple of extremely important points to…

The Tea Party grew out of nothing to become a major force in American politics based on a simple premise: the state had become dominated by liberals, and was now out to get decent conservative Americans. Following claims that the Internal Revenue…