Here are some great pictures to celebrate such a great invention.

Swedish women have launched a campaign called Just Breasts which fights for their right to go topless on beaches and in swimming pools.

We know what young people are doing more of: watching television, surfing the Web, listening to their iPods, talking on cellphones, and instant-messaging their friends. But a new report released today by the National Endowment for the Arts makes clear what they’re doing a lot less of: reading.

Researchers looking for new chemical compounds to combat germs are finding them in a surprising source: worms.

A compound found in cannabis may stop breast cancer from spreading throughout the body, US scientists believe.

There are blobby chocolate buttons. Chocolate hazelnuts. Orange creams. Walnut whips whose whirls have gone a little bit wonky.

A 5.5m long minke whale has been spotted more than 1600km (994 miles) from the Atlantic Ocean, deep inside the Amazon rain forest. The whale ran aground earlier last week but after being freed with the help of vets and biologists it disappeared shortly afterwards.

The New York Times has an article on South Korea’s government-funded boot camps for "Internet addicts" — places where kids are sent to be barked at by drill instructors until they forswear excessive Internet use.

After being ravaged by years of civil war, Angola is littered with thousands of landmines all over the country. In 23 years, over 80,000 people had died or lost limbs due to one wrong step.

The "world’s biggest liar" has been crowned, after telling a tale about a German World War II submarine invading Britain to capture digital television decoders.

In one of the most extreme signs of China’s modern grasp of entrepreneurial possibilities, gold panners are striking deals with jewellery factories to buy the contents of their septic tanks.