UK health group ASH have announced that images of smoking in movies has a negative effect on teenagers and children. It is calling for a reduction in the number of times smoking is shown in movies and...
Time magazine has released its list of the 100 people who have shaped the world this year. Featured in the list was Kate Moss. The list is supposed to highlight those whose "power, talent or moral...
A Channel Five documentary depicts the story of a wife with a fiery character who handed all control over to her husband to 'save her marriage'. The furious rows ceased to give way for her new found...
Some teenage mothers will be assigned an NHS minder to help them 'cope' until their baby is two. A trial of the scheme will see visits to teenage mothers in deprived areas. Health visitors or midwives...
The world is walking faster, the British Council has announced. City living, highly stressed jobs and the general pace of modern life has meant that we walk faster than ever before. Researchers at...
Britney Spears has made a low-key comeback at a small venue in America and more appearances are planned. She has made the decision despite well documented troubles in her private life. Should she make...
American students could be given the option of using a mobile phone tracking system to try and keep them safe while on campus. Various new technologies are being developed in the wake of the...
Thursday's local elections in England, Scotland and Wales are rapidly approaching and the hysteria is mounting?.or is it? Unlike America where every election seems to divide a nation, inspiring banner...
From the autumn secondary schools will teach school pupils skills such as resolving conflicts, managing anger and respecting others. The Department for Education and Skills have seen that these types...
18 year-old Princess Beatrice was plastered all over yesterday's papers looking a little worse for wear after a drink-fuelled evening. She was apparently in high spirits despite being a little...
A miracle pill is being developed by scientists that will apparently boost women's sex drive as well as suppress appetite. It has currently only been tested on shrews and monkeys, but women could be...
A prisoner who escaped from his Bulgarian prison in 2005 has returned and asked to be locked back up. The man said, "I missed my pals here and I was miserable being a free man". He has been put back...
Reports of a cat that has given birth to a dog have been doing the rounds with people in China over the last couple of days. Its owner comments that "it looks very different from the other kittens,...
An Austrian storekeeper has the caught shoplifters who held up his store by putting the CCTV footage on You Tube. The footage showed two men stealing a ?1,000 laptop but people who watched the footage...
Actress Kate Beckinsdale suffered from anorexia when she was younger. She doesn't believe pictures of skinny actresses and models are to blame for the rise in anorexia which is being reported in...
Sarah Dacre, 51, wears a veil made from polyester filaments dipped in silver twenty four seven. She believes this veil protects her from the elctrosmog that surrounds us. It comes from mobile phones...
A charity wants a law to prevent parents giving children under 15 alcohol. A study has shown a large increase in the amount of alcohol drank by 11 to 13 year-olds. The charity, Alcohol Concern, would...
Newspapers have been long accused of sensationalism and only focussing on the negative news stories. However, there are positive stories out there that either get no coverage, or are buried in the...
