Psy Reveals The Secret Of His Success To Oxford Students
“I stayed up for 30 nights to find that horse riding dance,” expounded the now truly global Korean rapper, Psy, to a packed hall of enraptured undergrads.
View ArticleCat Parasite Uses 'Trojan Horse' To Infect Human Brain, May Cause Suicidal...
A food-borne parasite that infects domestic cats can get inside the human brain by commandeering special cells of the immune system which it uses as a Trojan horse to enter the central nervous system,...
View ArticleThe Queen To Deliver Her Christmas Message In 3D
The Queen will be omnipresent like never before in her 3D Christmas message this year.
View Article'Gangnam Style' Dance Has Actually Killed Someone
The death of a father-of-three who collapsed while dancing to Gangnam Style has prompted a warning to middle-aged men not to attempt the vigorous dance from the hit video.
View ArticleCelebrities Who Went To War Against Science In 2012
They feed us a constant diet of fads and fancies, from detoxifying drinks to colon cleansers. But there were signs in 2012 that some celebrities at least are beginning to realise that many of the more...
View ArticleWhy China Is A Country Of Little Emperors
They were known as China’s “little emperors” – the offspring of one-child families born after the country’s draconian family planning policy was introduced in 1979. But now, scientists have produced...
View ArticleGrisly Revolving Door Accident Claims Office Dog's Life
Alan TBH Plumptre was usually carried in designer handbags and had 2,500 followers on Twitter.
View ArticleThe Fraudster Who Fooled A Whole Nation
Artur Baptista da Silva was an ex-presidential consultant, a former adviser to the World Bank, a financial researcher for the United Nations and a professor in the US. Turns out, he's really a fake who...
View ArticleThe Secret Lives Of North Korea
What is life like for the non-elite in this closed land? Do citizens really believe that mountains dance when a leader is born? Britain's former ambassador describes the people he knew there.
View ArticleThe Race To Fingerprint The Human Voice
Since 9/11, voice scientists have been searching for a way to find a person's unique "voiceprint." Turns out, it's a lot more difficult than you'd think.
View ArticleVatican Made €23M Investment That Includes Europe's Biggest Gay Sauna
A day ahead of the papal conclave, faces at the scandal-struck Vatican were even redder than usual after it emerged that the Holy See had purchased a €23 million (£21 million) share of a Rome apartment...
View ArticleMajority Of Austrians Think Nazis Could Be Elected Today
And 42% agree with the view that life “wasn’t all bad under the Nazis.” Seriously.
View ArticleCould An Asbestos Contaminated Tarantula Be On The Loose?
It's a scenario seemingly designed to give arachnophobes nightmares, but it's one that an asbestos team working in an attic in Cardiff this week have encountered.
View ArticleOver Half Of Guantanamo Bay Prisoners On Hunger Strike
Over half of all detainees at the US-run Guantanamo Bay military prison are now taking part in a hunger strike, with many being force-fed.
View ArticleMan Who Claimed To Be Vietnam Vet Left Behind Exposed As A Fraud
Had it been true, it would have been one of the most gripping war stories of all time. But sadly it looks as if the man found living in the Vietnam jungle, who a new documentary claims is ‘long dead’...
View ArticleChinese Researchers Criticized For Creating New Flu Strains
Experts warn of danger that the new viral strains created by mixing bird-flu virus with human influenza could escape from the laboratory to cause a global pandemic killing millions of people.
View ArticleSaul Bass Gets The Google Doodle Tribute
Bass was best known for his cinema title sequences and movie posters, working with such directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese.
View ArticleThe Anne Frank Fund On The Anne Frank Foundation: They’re Acting Like Nazis
A war of words has broken out between two rival charities bearing the name of the diarist Anne Frank, with one of the foundations accusing the other of acting like Nazis.
View ArticleThe WWII-Era Diary Of A German Teenager
Her neighborhood was bombed by the allies, the Jews around the corner were being sent to Auschwitz and the Red Army had launched its final assault on Berlin. But Brigitte Eicke, a teenaged German, was...
View ArticleArmstrong: You Can't Win The Tour Without Doping
Nobody can win the Tour de France without taking performance-enhancing drugs, Lance Armstrong, the disgraced seven-times winner of the race said today.
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