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Scotland has monsters, but not just in Loch Ness
It is that monster-hunting time of the year again and with the help of a robot underwater camera PETER FROST discovers a real huge monster in Scottish waters
[Pic: Green Fire Productions / Creative Commons]
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
A ROBOT camera has been used in British seas for the first time to monitor the behaviour of huge basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus) off the Scottish coast.
Marine scientists have just spent a week off the coast of Mull in the Inner Hebrides tagging three basking sharks using the cameras attached to the shark’s dorsal fin and trailing behind the huge fish. This type of tag has never before been used to film basking sharks.
Basking sharks are the second-largest fish in the world, an endangered species weighing up to seven tonnes and 33 feet (10m) long with a huge mouth over three feet (1m) wide.
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