Adventurer Jason Lewis on Saturday arrived in Greenwich, ending a 13-year round-the-world trip using only the power of the human body.

The All Party Group on Identity Fraud said a tsar was needed to co-ordinate the work being done by the government, police and private sector.

Miss America Lauren Nelson of Lawton is the centerpiece of a new kid-friendly Internet browser designed to keep children away from dangers sites and predators.

Virtual Worlds  Management, the leading media company tracking the virtual
worlds industry,  has announced findings from a comprehensive study of
accountable transactions  that venture capital, technology and media firms have
invested more than $1  billion dollars in 35 virtual worlds companies in the
past 12 months, from  October 2006 to October 2007.

More than 12 million US adults have shopped online at least once in the past
year while on a work-related conference call, according to an Ipsos Insight study
sponsored by Bill Me
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Some will make you laugh and others will make you cringe.  But they will all give you a slightly different perspective on the world around us.  Here are this weeks amazing photos.

Scientists who discovered that Viagra helps hamsters overcome jet lag and a Japanese researcher who extracted vanilla flavouring from cow dung won top honours Thursday at the 17th annual Ig Nobel Awards.

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There are two aspects to creating an effective drug: finding a chemical compound that has the desired biological effect and minimal side-effects and then delivering it to the right place in the body for it to do its job.

During the last ice age, Scotland was likely a desolate place covered by glaciers, but new evidence suggests intrepid settlers braved the elements by establishing a community there as early as 13,000 years ago.

A team at Bath University discovered a causal link between the gene involved in the formation of blood vessels and the development of some forms of MND.

Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built an entirely synthetic chromosome, a sequence of genes, and plans to implant it in an existing cell.