Cute, cuddly and fast breeding, thousands of koalas are eating themselves out of a home on an Australian island. But authorities are refusing to heed conservationists’ pleas to reduce the population, fearing a backlash from tourists and animal rights activists.

For students who wait till the last minute to start their term papers, plagiarism today doesn’t even require cracking open an encyclopedia.

A new chapter in the continuing story of antibiotic resistance is being written in doctors’ offices across the country, as a group of common bacteria rapidly becomes resistant to the antibiotics that have been used to treat them for decades.

A blood pressure-lowering skin patch could help people recover from stroke and avoid another, offering particular benefit to stroke sufferers who can’t swallow.

News that Kofi Annan and other senior UN figures may have been routinely bugged by US or British security services has caused a huge political row around the world. But it will also have caused alarm among other people in the public eye who deal with sensitive information - or anyone, indeed, who values their […]