Oldest living kidney donor pleased 'to feel useful'

An 83-year-old man has become the oldest person in the UK to donate a kidney while still being alive, the NHS Blood and Transplant service has said. Nicholas Crace, from Overton in Hampshire, is also the oldest "altruistic" kidney donor - he will never meet the recipient of hi …

Is a DIY hairdo a shortcut to disaster? As more women skip the salon to save money, one brave volunteer tries cutting her own hair

As more women skip the salon to save money, one brave volunteer tries cutting her own hair

Turkey villagers see Israeli spy in migratory bird

A migratory bird has caused alarm in a village in south-eastern Turkey after locals mistook it for an Israeli spy. Villagers' suspicions were aroused when the bird, a common European bee-eater, was found dead in a field with a metal ring around its leg stamped "Israel". They  …

Dukan Diet guru Pierre Dukan struck off French medical register 'at own request'

Pierre Dukan, whose celebrity diet is championed by the likes of Carole Middleton, has been struck off the medical register at his own request, after medical experts accused him of giving damaging dietary advice to teenagers.

Turkish singer goes back home after Schiphol questioning

A Dutch concert by popular Turkish singer Arif Sag was cancelled this weekend after he gave up and returned home after lengthy questioning by officials at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport. According to the Telegraaf, Sag was furious at being questioned and made to wait for so long …

Australian rangers shoot 'terror' saltwater crocodile

Rangers in Australia's Northern Territory have shot dead a saltwater crocodile with a taste for dogs, clothing and other oddities, local media report. The 3.5-metre long (11.5ft) crocodile was attacking a dog at a beach near the community of Gatwinku on Tuesday when it was sho …

Man zapped in freak fat-burning foul-up

A man who went to a Stockholm beauty clinic to have fat reducing treatment has reported the salon to the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) after 25 minutes of electrical shocks and agony in what he described as a “catastrophic” experience.

'Thinking like a maggot': How insect clues can crack murder probes

Dr Martin Hall has had to get used to dealing with horrific sights and smells as part of his job. Yet the type of scene he regularly faces is something he had not considered in his "wildest dreams" when he became fascinated by insects as a child. After collecting beetles and  …

School starting age 'should be raised to six to prevent long-term damage to brighter children'

Children should not have to start school until they are six to prevent early 'adultification', an academic has claimed. Going against conventional wisdom that their intellect should be fed and stimulated early on, education expert Dr Richard House says that over-emphasis on th …

Michael Caine Trapped In Attic Dressing Room Overnight New Orleans

British film star Michael Caine spent the night trapped in an attic dressing room while filming in New Orleans. The actor had reportedly fallen asleep while taking a break from filming a crime caper entitled Now You See Me. His dressing room was in the attic of an old disused …

Funeral museum offers coffins and tombstones

An exhibition of hearses and coffins is on offer at Vienna’s Funeral Museum. A 1,000-piece collection of exhibits at the Funeral Museum gives an intriguing insight into funerary tradition, burial rituals and the Viennese population's fascinating relationship with death.  …

What can you pay for with 1p and 2p coins? Not an £800 tax bill …

A care home manager has been fined £1,118.62 after he settled an £804 debt to his accountant with five crates of mostly 1p and 2p coins. He had been to the bank especially, he said: be glad that you weren't behind him in the queue. So what did Robert Fitzpatrick, th …

Italian university switches to English

From opera at La Scala to football at the San Siro stadium, from the catwalks of fashion week to the soaring architecture of the cathedral, Milan is crowded with Italian icons. Which makes it even more of a cultural earthquake that one of Italy's leading universities - the Pol …

Shocked family wake to find a Lexus at the bottom of their swimming pool.

A family from California were taken aback when they woke up to find a Lexus at the bottom of their swimming pool.

Dinosaurs struggled with arthritis just like humans

Researchers studying a giant eight metre pliosaurus found evidence of an arthritis like disease in its jaw. Usually capable of ripping other dinosaurs to bits with its 20cm teeth, the gammy jaw would eventually have stopped her feeding and led to her death 150 million years ag …

Hope for family who want to keep fox as pet

A decision to let an 83-year-old man keep his wild boar at home has given hope to another French family who have been separated from the wild fox they adopted two years ago. Bamby the boar was taken in by Yvan Blaise in February 2011. He said he would rather die than be separa …

All this from ONE stone: Jewellery from world's largest diamond goes on display at Buckingham palace

# The Cullinan Diamond, weighing 3,106 carats in its rough state, was first discovered in 1905 at a mine near Pretoria in South Africa # It was originally thrown away as it was thought it to be too large to be a diamond # Once recovered, it was presented to King Edward VII as g …

Nerve rewiring helps paralysed man move hand

A paralysed man has regained limited use of his hand after pioneering surgery to bypass damage to his spinal cord. His injury meant his brain could not "talk" to his hand, meaning all control was lost. Surgeons at the Washington University School of Medicine re-wired his nerv …

Heart Attack Victims Cut Risk With 2 Drinks, Harvard Study Says

Men who have two drinks a day after surviving a first heart attack have a lower risk of death from heart disease than non-drinkers, Harvard researchers said, adding to evidence that moderate alcohol use may be healthy. Men who survived a heart attack and who drank two alcoholi …

Banksy Jubilee graffiti springs up overnight on London street

A new piece of street art purporting to be from graffiti artist Banksy has appeared on a London street in what could be a dark commentary on the upcoming Jubilee celebrations.

Old table lamp turns out to be £550,000 Ming vase

An old vase that had been crudely turned into a lamp sold for £550,000 because it was a rare 15th century Chinese object from the Ming dynasty

Shark attacks: A magnetic solution?

An American chemist says he's found a substance - several, in fact - that can repel some of the most fearsome predators in the ocean. He wants to use his discovery to protect them, and us. Eric Stroud stands on a pier on the island of North Bimini in the Bahamas. He looks down …

Traffic jam trap police to stay silent

The lawyer for a suspected petrol thief caught in a police-made traffic jam has accused the public prosecutor of hampering his attempt to get at the truth. The suspect, a 47-year-old man from Tilburg, is accused of driving off from a petrol station without paying. In order to …

The wrong Carlos: how Texas sent an innocent man to his death

A few years ago, Antonin Scalia, one of the nine justices on the US supreme court, made a bold statement. There has not been, he said, "a single case – not one – in which it is clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit. If such an event had occu …

Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld Found Guilty of War Crimes

An international tribunal has found Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their legal advisers, Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo guilty of the crimes of conspiracy to allow torture in Guantanamo Bay, Bagram and Abu Ghraib.

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