The United States and Japan will step up their defence cooperation to deal with the threat from nuclear-armed North Korea as tensions in East Asia remain high, officials from the two allies said on Thursday.

Virgin discovery prompts global alert

Virgin has returned nine of its Embraer 190 aircraft to service after they were grounded on the discovery of a fault with bolts that hold the plane's engine in place, which in turn prompted a worldwide alert.

The fault, which was discovered during heavy maintenance carried out on Wednesday night and Thursday, prompted the Brazilian manufacturer to issue an "alert service bulletin" to all airlines operating the Embraer 190 after being informed of the problem by Virgin.

The issue relates to bolts that hold the engine onto the engine pylon, which isPages

Sep 7, 2010

Robert Bauval on King Tut's DNA

In this Red Ice Radio interview, Robert Bauval weighs in the controversy over Tutankhamun's possible Western European ancestry.

Despite the refusal of the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, to release any DNA results which might indicate the racial ancestry of Pharaoh Tutankhamen, the leaked results reveal that King Tut’s DNA is a 99.6 percent match with Western European Y chromosomes.

The DNA test results were inadvertently revealed on a Discovery Channel TV documentary filmed with Hawass’s permission — but it seems as if the Egyptian failed to spot the giveaway part of the documentary which revealed the test results.

Bauval puts Hawass's recalcitrance in some context explaining the nationalistic attitudes that are very much a part of his