A little-known law which prohibits people dying while in the Houses of Parliament has been voted the UK’s most ludicrous piece of legislation.

Scientists have identified a gene which leads children to have higher IQs if they are breastfed, according to a study released on Monday.

Apparel outfitted with flashing lights, speakers, wires, and microcontrollers … well, let’s face it, it seems a little geeky. But a new fabric-based construction kit, called the Lilypad, could push wearable electronics into the crafty realm of construction paper and glitter glue.

There has been a lot of crazy stuff going on in China in anticipation for the 2008 Olympics. None quite so strange as this story. Nearly 3,500 children, since the year 2000, have been named after the 2008 Olympics.

Google has unveiled software it hopes will power a variety of future mobile phones and boost the web on the move.

Australian scientists have found how to switch hunger on and off using a molecule that targets the brain — a discovery which could stop weight loss in terminally ill patients or produce weight loss in the morbidly obese.

A study of more than 5,000 youngsters in Switzerland has found those who smoked marijuana do as well or better in some areas as those who don’t, researchers said on Monday.

This artwork was made from 2,008 pop cans. Zhao Xiuzhen from Jiyuan, China, spent 2 years cutting up the pop cans and piecing them together to form a dragon.

Gary Kidd had a pretty good idea that what his 3-year-old grandson had found was no rock, but the tooth of a woolly mammoth. That’s because he had found one himself nine years ago.

The world’s richest model has reportedly reacted in her own way to the sliding value of the US dollar – by refusing to be paid in the currency.  Gisele Bündchen is said to be keen to avoid the US currency because of uncertainty over its strength.

A crooked German church steeple has knocked the leaning tower of Pisa from the Guinness book of Records as the world’s most leaning building.