A charity laid on a free Easter lunch for 50 people thanks to a donation from the family of Professor Stephen Hawking. FoodCycle Cambridge - which collects surplus food from businesses in he city - served the three-course meal at Wesley Methodist Church on Sunday. A note on tables told...
Police have launched two separate investigations after a teenage boy was shot and critically injured - and a 17-year-old girl was shot and killed. The Met Police say the two incidents are unrelated, after another night of violence in London. The 17-year-old girl died after she was shot in Tottenham,...
The most amazing underwater pictures in the world have been revealed - including a close-up snap of an angry crocodile. More than 6,000 pictures were entered for the underwaterphotography.com contest across 17 categories - from macro close-ups to wide angle shots, with two Brits claiming gold medals. A lemon shark...
Giant dinosaurs bigger than a double decker bus roamed the Isle of Skye 170 million years ago, say scientists. Dozens of footprints belonging to early sauropods - the largest animals ever to walk the planet - have been unearthed in a lagoon on the remote Scottish hideaway. Others were made...
Antarctica is shrinking because the sea floor is being eroded - by warm water. Global warming is causing vast swathes of the land underneath the frozen continent to be carried away - leading to structural instability in the great ice sheet. Now entire cliffs of ice that have stood for...
Astronomers have captured an image of the most distant star ever seen - nine BILLION light years away. The star, named Icarus, is so far away that the light the boffins saw was twice as old as planet Earth. Experts at UC Berkely in California discovered the star thanks to...
These are the adorable pictures of a polar bear cub swimming for the first time at a Scottish wildlife park. The cub is the first polar bear to be born in the UK in the past 25 years. Polar bear cub at the Highland Wildlife Park, Scotland having a swim...
Pupils, in deprived areas, are "filling their pockets" with food from school canteens, in desperation, due to poverty. These troubling findings have been gathered from a survey of 900 heads, teachers and school support staff of the National Education Union (NEU). Nearly nine out of ten (87%) say that poverty...
Scientists have developed a skin-like material that can change colour - like a chameleon. Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) discovered the novel product through a number of tests on an experimental material. Skin protects the body in a number of ways, including by rapidly...