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CHILDREN ARE nearly three times more likely to try cigarettes if they regularly watch films showing actors smoking, according to new research. A study published in the medical journal The [...]

ICELAND is planning to restart its slaughter of whales with a lethal scientific research programme that will lead to full-scale commercial whaling. Stefan Asmundsson, the Icelandic whaling commissioner, confirmed that [...]

SCIENTISTS HAVE developed a new bouncier sportsboot which they hope will prevent the painful foot problems that shorten the playing careers of footballers and cricketers. Researchers in Cambridge have patented [...]

THIRTEEN AMERICAN soldiers were wounded - six seriously - when two grenades were rolled into a military command tent near the Iraqi border in Kuwait last night. The attack happened [...]

THE RIBS of these Zimbabwean horses stick out through their matted coats. Starving and slowly dying, they are stark reminders of the cruelty inflicted on farm animals when President Robert [...]

SUMS BASED on the dimensions of Manchester United's pitch and the dates of Arsenal's FA Cup victories are being used by primary schools to interest boys in lessons. A series [...]

MARKS & SPENCER remains Britain's most-admired company, despite its falling sales and the criticism recently heaped on its 'dowdy' clothing lines, according to a survey by the HPI Research Group. [...]

THE Scots law professor who masterminded the Lockerbie trial in the Netherlands has launched a scathing attack on the judges for finding the defendant guilty on 'very, very weak' evidence. [...]