A Japanese hospital plans to set up a "baby hatch" allowing mothers to anonymously drop off their newborns so they can be put up for adoption....

The latest list from the UNDP (United Nations Development Program) rates Norway as the best country in the world to live in for the sixth year running, after toppling Canada from the top spot in 2001....

Donald Rumsfeld was the oldest and the most controversial member of the Bush administration. Now he's being made a scapegoat for the Iraq disaster and has to go. His mission to radically reorganize th...

Russia has banned the hit comedy film, Borat, which has been accused of poking fun at Moscow's neighbour and close ally Kazakhstan....

Juba, an insurgent marksman in Baghdad, claims to have killed 37 US soldiers - and tapes of his alleged hits are a vital weapon in the propaganda war. Report by Patrick Cockburn and Jerome Taylor...

It is not the same as streaking, which is against the law. I did it as part of the creative process. --- "nude poet" Su Feishu Free after ten-days in police custody, Su Feishu, the poet that strip...

The recent security breach at Los Alamos National Laboratory was very serious, with sensitive materials being taken out of the facility — possibly including information on how to deactivate locks on n...

Cell transplants have successfully restored vision to mice which had lost their sight, leading to hopes people could benefit in the same way....

UK scientists have applied for permission to create embryos by fusing human DNA with cow eggs. Researchers from Newcastle University and Kings College, London, have asked the Human Fertilisation an...

SENIOR doctors are urging health professionals to consider permitting the euthanasia of seriously disabled newborn babies. The proposal, by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology, follo...