What's wrong with your vagina? If you answered "nothing," you're probably wrong. According to the beauty-industrial complex, it's ugly, and it smells bad. But don't worry-- there's nothing that money can't fix. More here.
By Jenny Hope
Last updated at 9:58 AM on 22nd January 2010
Modern children' s lifestyles are putting them at risk of developing rickets, doctors have warned.
The bone disease, which was the scourge of Victorian Britain, is making a comeback because poor diets and the decline in outdoor play have led to a vitamin D deficiency.
Factors such as more time spent inside playing on computers have reduced the amount of outdoor activity children get compared with previous generations. More here.
Young victims: Rickets was the scourge of Victorian Britain
After rain come mushrooms. Now is the season to explore one of the most mysterious and all too transient organisms that occur in dry gardens. More here.
Ancestors: Farmers from Iraq and Syria in 8000 BC built up communities in Britain
The invention of farming led to the first towns and paved the way for the dawn of civilisation.
The Leicester University study looked at a common genetic mutation on the Y chromosome, the DNA that is passed down from fathers to sons. More here.
By David Derbyshire
Last updated at 10:13 AM on 21st January 2010
Discovered: The remains of Alfred the Great's granddaughter, Eadgyth - a Saxon Queen and one of the oldest members of the English royal family have been unearthed in a tomb in Germany - More here.
One of the most callous reactions to the Haiti disaster thus far has come from televangelist Pat Robertson, who told viewers of his Christian Broadcasting Network on Wednesday morning that he knew the real reason for the quake: The country's long-standing pact with Satan. More Here.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Human ancestors that left Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago to see the rest of the world were no landlubbers. Stone hand axes unearthed on the Mediterranean island of Crete indicate that an ancient Homo species — perhaps Homo erectus — had used rafts or other seagoing vessels to cross from northern Africa to Europe via at least some of the larger islands in between, says archaeologist Thomas Strasser of Providence College in Rhode Island.
The authorities set up an anti-human sacrifice task force in 2009, to try to combat the rise in the number of ritual child killings being performed by witch doctors.
Newsnight's Tim Whewell travelled to Uganda, where he met a former witch doctor now working to convert other witch doctors from their practices.
His report contains accounts that viewers may find disturbing.
Broadcast on Thursday 7 January 2010
By Amie Newman, Managing Editor
January 6, 2010 - 12:26pm
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 8:07 PM on 06th January 2010
A circus performer stood locked in a trance for hours after he accidentally hypnotised himself while practising his routine in a mirror. More here.
Madcap: Hannibal Helmurto marrying wife Joanne, who found him in a trance
 | Drummer Imran Malik and guitarist Basim Usmani of the Muslim Hindu punk band The Kominas rehearse in a basement in Wayland, Mass., on Dec. 19 More here. |
Secular campaigners publish series of anti-religious quotes and say they will challenge law if charged with blasphemy More here.
Björk's comment on Buddhism has been included in the series of anti-religious quotes published by Atheist Ireland. Photograph: Getty Images
TOKYO — For Atsushi Nakanishi, jobless since Christmas, home is a cubicle barely bigger than a coffin — one of dozens of berths stacked two units high in one of central Tokyo’s decrepit “capsule” hotels. More here.
He's very good at playing bad guys, so how will he handle a punk poet turned posthumous national treasure? More here.
Andy Serkis on Ian Dury: 'He was obnoxious, just an arse, you know.' Photograph: Spencer Murphy
Friday, January 1, 2010
Harold Camping lets out a hearty chuckle when he considers the people who believe the world will end in 2012.
"That date has not one stitch of biblical authority," Camping says from the Oakland office where he runs Family Radio, an evangelical station that reaches listeners around the world. "It's like a fairy tale."
The real date for the end of times, he says, is in 2011. More here.
