Day August 8, 2005

California’s fleet of state-owned vehicles swelled to 70,000 last year, but officials in an aggressive new asset-management push have so far been able to pinpoint only about 40,000. Un-freaking-believable. How can you misplace 30,000 cars?

Robin Cook, who died on Saturday, was one of the most principled and eloquent politicians of our time. Here, in a column he wrote for ‘The Independent’ in March last year, he holds the Government to account for its war…

Diogenes of Sinope “walked throughout Athens carrying a lantern in daylight, searching for an honest man.” Berkshire Hathaway faces worldwide regulatory probe Berkshire Hathaway, the world’s greatest investment company, led by billionaire Warren Buffett, is facing probes by regulators in…

Dramatic scenarios from man-made global warming can no longer be excluded, including the complete disappearance of glaciers from entire mountain ranges, leading to processes “without precedent in the history of the earth,” according to the latest update of a five-yearly…