The Sun enters Capricorn at 5:30am UTC on 22 December 2011. This marks the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere and the summer solstice in the southern hemisphere.  The Sun is directly overhead, i.e. at the zenith, at local noon on this day at a point in the Indian Ocean west of Australia and south [...]

Rupert Murdoch, Australian/American media mogul and Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, has made headlines recently as the true extent of the phone-hacking and other criminal behaviour of the journalists employed by him and his businesses has been exposed.  He has agreed to appear before a UK Parliamentary Select Committee to answer questions about the [...]