Wind may swing Elections says Cambridge University Professor

People are losing faith in election forecasts from pollsters after several votes didn't go as expected. But people may want to pay more attention to weather forecasters in the run-up to elections according to Cambridge University's Judge Business School. They say that undecided voters heading towards the polls maybe swung by the weather that day. Because elections are being decided be smaller and smaller margins this could make the difference between going with the status quo and taking a leap into the unknown...

Woman voting in Iraqi elections in 2005

100 years since Britain went to War of the world

"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." Sir Edward Grey, 3rd August 1914.