King’s College London

The Daily Mail reports that the students’ union of the prestigious King’s College London has hired “safe space marshals” to police the speech of speakers invited onto the campus, ensuring that they do not voice opinions that could be considered potentially offensive to students.

Smokers who successfully quit feel less anxious afterwards, according to new research from King’s College London in collaboration with the Universities of Southampton, Oxford and Cambridge.
The findings, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, contradict a widely held belief that smoking relieves stress and giving up makes people feel more on edge.

A programme to rehabilitate former Isis fighters and other extremists with housing, employment, education and financial support is being trialled in Sweden.

Local authorities in the city of Lund say the controversial measures aim to reintegrate returned jihadis into society and prevent them reverting to their former networks.

Isis has been driven out of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra for a second time under three months after jihadis retook their former stronghold.

The Russian defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, claimed the Syrian army had fully recaptured the militant stronghold on Thursday, although monitors said air strikes and clashes were ongoing.

Facebook addicts may be genetically programmed to love social media, a major new study has claimed. Scientists at King’s College London compared the internet habits of around 4,250 identical twins with around 4,250 non-identical twins. They found genes were responsible up to 39 percent of the time spent online.

The legal team of students from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, has struck again beating their peers from institutions such as Harvard University in moot court! The team came first in the Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot 2015 held in London from October 29 to November 1.