en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:16:42 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Andrew Haldenby Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:01:00 GMT 2010-02-08T07:54:56Z The call for cuts in university places has provoked synchronised shroud-waving from the University and College Union (on behalf of academics) and Universities UK (for institutions). Andy Hayman Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:01:00 GMT 2010-02-08T07:53:37Z Ali Dizaei and his supporters claimed that he was a victim of a decade-long malicious racist witch-hunt. But the conviction of the police commander yesterday for misconduct in public office and perverting the course of justice reveals that he was no victim, but a violent bully and liar who abused his position of trust. Natalie Haynes Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:01:00 GMT 2010-02-09T01:41:39Z Google has announced that it is developing software for a phone that can translate speech into a different language almost instantly. I assume that the first phrase it will need is: “I have an app for that.” Speech-to-speech translation should, according to Franz Och, Google’s head of translation services, be possible and work reasonably well in a few years’ time. John Krebs Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:01:00 GMT 2010-02-07T09:32:15Z My non-scientist friends are beginning to ask me “What’s gone wrong with science?” Revelations about melting glaciers and potentially dodgy emails about global warming, the resurfacing of Andrew Wakefield and the MMR scare, and the sacking of the Government’s drugs adviser, have created the impression for some people that science is in a mess. Amir Taheri Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:01:00 GMT 2010-02-07T09:31:15Z An east-west street of more than 30 miles divides Tehran, Iran’s megapolis of a capital, into two halves: a modern north and a traditional south. Thirty years ago the thoroughfare was named after Reza Shah, the founder of the Pahlavis, the last dynasty of monarchs in Iran. Today it is called Enghelab (Revolution) Street after the turmoil that led to the creation of the first theocracy in the country’s history.