One billion people now live in Africa, says a new report. The continent’s population is growing by about 24 million a year, and will double to nearly two billion by 2050, the report adds. read more

Israeli Scientists Prove DNA Evidence Can Be Faked

Scientists in Israel have discovered a way to prove that DNA evidence can be faked.

Long considered the most solid proof in any criminal court case, the biological goods can easily be planted at a crime scene, according to Dan Frumkin, lead author of a paper published in the online journal Forensic Science International: Genetics. “You can just engineer a crime scene,” Frumkin contends. “Any biology undergraduate could perform this.” read more

Israeli Government Outraged By “Blood Libel” – News Reports

Government officials and commentators in Israel described reports that its army was extracting the body organs of Palestinians killed in ongoing clashes as anti-Semitic and libellous. read more

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi: Profile of a Scapegoat

“To be incarcerated in a far off land, completely alien to my way of life and culture has been not only a shock but also a most profound dislocation for me personally and for my whole family,” he said. read more