• Chemicals in Baby Products Linked to Problems

  A new study brings to light a potentially dangerous link between chemicals used in ordinary products, such as baby shampoos...

   

• FBI head: Give telcos immunity

  Nick Julian At the heart of President Bush’s plea to give telecommunications companies legal immunity is the contention...

   

• Why governments can’t continue to ignore torture

  European judges have delivered a landmark ruling in the so-called ‘war on terror’, says Robert Verkaik, Law Editor,...

   

• Met Police chief calls for European DNA database

  Sir Ian Blair says scheme would have obvious benefits for crimefighting Computing Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian...

   

• 30,000 children’s DNA on police database

  By Christine Sexton THE DNA profiles of more than 30,000 Essex children are being kept on a police database. Figures released...