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BBC News Jan 23 An Australian soldier has been awarded the country's highest military honour, the Victoria Cross, for bravery while serving in Afghanistan. Cpl Benjamin Roberts-Smith, 32, was given the medal for single-handedly overpowering Taleban machine-gunners attacking his platoon...

Mail Jan 23 President defends abortion as a right... as lawmakers get set to roll those rights back President Barack Obama has labelled abortion a 'right', setting the grounds for a new battle with lawmakers determined to roll those rights back. The President marked the 38th...

Telegraph Fried breakfast is healthiest start to day, say scientists A breakfast of bacon, sausages, eggs, and beans could be the healthiest start to the day, according to new research Scientists believe that breakfast programmes the metabolism for the rest of the day, and a fatty meal...

Telegraph Jan 22 Women are more likely than men to take sick days and are happier to give an embarrassing excuse for taking unplanned leave, according to a new survey Research carried out for Sovereign Health Care found employees were more likely to take an unwarranted day off this month...

BBC News Jan 22 Foreign powers negotiating with Tehran on its nuclear programme say they are "disappointed" after a round of talks ended without progress in Istanbul. EU foreign policy chief Baroness Ashton, who led the international team, said Iran had come to the talks with...

Telegraph Jan 21 Lonesome George, the Galapagos's most eligible bachelor, is to be given two new potential mates in an attempt to finally produce offspring George, a tortoise believed to be the last living member of the Geochelone abigdoni species, is thought to be almost 100 years old...

Mail Jan 22 The Earth could soon have a second sun, at least for a week or two. The cosmic phenomenon will happen when one of the brightest stars in the night sky explodes into a supernova. And, according to a report yesterday, the most stunning light show in the planet’s history could...

Mail Jan 21 The bizarre trend of massed animal deaths around the world in January has been as baffling as it is disturbing. It started on New Year's Eve as 4,000 birds crashed to earth over a one-mile area of Beebe, Arkansas, and was followed by tens of thousands of fish washing up on a...

BBC News Jan 21 Cuba has suspended all postal deliveries to the United States until further notice. The suspension follows the introduction of stricter security measures by the US last year after the attempted mailing of explosives from Yemen. The Cuban postal service says large...

Discovery News Analysis by Robert Lamb Is Time Travel Possible? From summer blockbusters to sensational science headlines, modern culture is constantly inundated with tales of time travel. But when you boil down the physics involved, is it possible to travel through time? To answer...

Independent Jan 22 More than 40 years after Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the surface of the moon, the multinational crew of Russia's Mars 500 experiment will finally leave their spaceship in the coming weeks, and venture out – into an adjacent sandpit. The...

Telegraph Jan 21 If you feel like your spouse does not understand you, it may be because you are too close to them, claims new research Psychologists believe that when two people know each other too well they assume too much shared knowledge and their language becomes dangerously...

BBC Jan 21 Scientists have discovered that expert board game players use a part of their brain that amateurs fail to utilise. The research, published in Science, involved scanning the brains of both professional and amateur Japanese "Shogi" players. Shogi is a Japanese game, similar to...

Tony Blair on the coals ...again ... for taking the UK into the Iraq War BBC News - Tony Blair 'deeply and profoundly regrets' Iraq dead

Telegraph Jan 21 Seth Rogen, a comedian and actor, said that he was left speechless by a recent conversation in which George Lucas, the producer of Star Wars and other Hollywood hits, told him of his belief that the world would end in 2012 Lucas made his claims at a meeting with the actor...

BBC News Jan 20 For fossil hunters, it represents one of those breakthrough moments. A pterosaur has been found in China beautifully preserved with an egg. The egg indicates this ancient flying reptile was a female, and that realisation has allowed researchers to sex these creatures for...

If you enjoy a good period drama, I can recommend The Tudors. BBC America Wednesday 10/9c In short its all about Henry VIII and his wives - the only thing to remember is it is not a factual docu-drama, its more like ..... "what if it happened this way" But a very good, entertaining series.

BBC News Jan 20 A woman in the US is able to speak for the first time in 11 years after a pioneering voicebox transplant. Brenda Jensen said the operation, which took place in California, was a miracle which had restored her life. Thirteen days after the surgery she said her first...

Because I know how much you all love this subject :p:p BBC News Jan 20 2010 hits global temperature high 2010 was the warmest year since global temperature records began in 1850 - although margins of uncertainty make it a statistical tie with 1998 and 2005. The World...

BBC News Jan 20 US federal agents have arrested more than 100 suspected mobsters in multiple investigations into New York's organised crime families. The majority of the arrests were made on Thursday morning throughout New York City, New Jersey and other areas in the north-eastern US, FBI...