Colin Firth partied hard after his Oscar win for the Best Actor but the King’s Speech star almost lost his 8lb golden statuette after he left it in the bathroom.

Want to know if you are likely to catch a cold or develop joint ache as you get older? Well, diagnosis is at your finger length, say scientists.

Here’s some good news for Agatha Christie fans, The Floating Admiral, a collaborative novel written in 1931 by 14 members of the Detection Club, including her, is republished, 80 years after its first publication.

In a rare gesture, Prince William’s bride-to-be, Kate Middleton has invited a butcher, a postman and an India-born shopkeeper and his wife from her village in Berkshire for her royal wedding on April 29.

JOHN LE CARRE, one of the world’s most celebrated authors, has offered his literary archive to Oxford University’s Bodleian Library with the intention that it should become its permanent home. Le Carre said: “I am delighted to be able to do this. Oxford was Smiley’s spiritual home, as it is mine. And while I have the greatest respect for American universities, the Bodleian is where I shall most happily rest.”

If you perceive that women are the weaker sex, think again, for a new study claims they are more cunning and competitive than men — particularly when the going gets tough. Researchers found that instead of physical violence, women rely more on subtle forms of aggression, such as excluding someone from a group if they think they are a threat.

AFTER 38 successful missions, Nasa’s oldest space shuttle Discovery ascended towards space for the last time on Thursday. On its final mission STS-133, it carries six astronauts, brand new modules and lots of supplies to the orbiting space laboratory: International Space Station (ISS).

Scientists have created what they claim is the world’s smallest computer system that is just one square millimetre in size and can fit into one’s eyeball.
Developed by a team at the University of Michigan, the unnamed tiny device is a pressure monitor that can be implanted in a person’s eye to treat glaucoma.

Archaeologists have discovered what they say are the bones of a three-year-old Ice Age toddler who was cremated in modern-day Alaska some 11,500 years ago.
Scientists hailed the discovery as “truly spectacular” as they hope the find will help them know more about the life and times of early settlers who crossed from Asia to the

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden to face rape and sexual assault claims, a British judge ruled on Thursday after dismissing arguments that he would face an unfair trial.