Released to tie in with World Vegan Day (1st November), which commences World Vegan Month, sales data research from high-street Italian chain restaurant Zizzi suggests that the popularity of veganism is continuing to rise, with sales of vegan dishes increasing by a huge 246 per-cent since last November. The restaurant has sold more than 166,000 dairy and meat-free meals since summer, alone. Examining sales data of vegan dishes as part of Zizzi’s ongoing commitment to providing the most varied menu...

Sea slugs are the pirates of the underwater world when it comes to feeding time - targeting prey that have just eaten to "supersize" their own meal. Scientists who identified the behaviour have named it kleptopredation. Researchers from the University of Portsmouth are the first to have observed the brutal feeding strategy in the natural world. Senior lecturer Dr Trevor Willis led the research into the behaviour of nudibranchs, a family of sea slugs, off the coast of Sicily. He...

WARNING GRAPHIC PICS  A mother and her two children have been jailed for locking their four dogs in a room for weeks without any food or water. Joyce Davies, 52, Adam Davies 30, and Kyley Davies, 25, shut the pets away and ignored them as they scavenged for food - despite there being cans of dog food in the house. It's thought that as a result, the dogs named Snowdrop, Scooter, Prince and Lucky, may have consumed something toxic, which...

I think we’re all in agreement that tooth pain is one of the most frustrating pains that we can go through. But did you know that that pain or discomfort could actually be telling you more about your body than just a problem with your teeth? The mouth can be like a mirror for the state of your body, so while you’re looking for the best dentist London has to offer, or the closest emergency clinic, you should stop and...

This is the moment surgeons retrieved 639 massive nails from a man's intestines - using a MAGNET. The 48-year-old had apparently gobbled down the two-inch spikes which miraculously didn't pierce his digestive system on the way down. Doctors in Kolkata, India at the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital conducted a surgery on a schizophrenic patient and were able to extract 639 nails from the patient's intestine. . Doctors found them inside his intestines with an endoscopy and cut him open...

By Michael McNulty If you’re looking for a poorly sketched portrait of Paul Gauguin, then Edouard Deluc’s film, Gauguin, might be just the thing for you.  This quasi-biography is a tepid attempt at painting the artists life in the romantic brush strokes that he surely would have liked to have been remember by. A bedraggled Gauguin (Vincent Cassel) is desperate to leave Paris, “there’s not a face or a landscape worth painting,” he passionately explains to his paintbrush wielding brethren. ...

With great expectations often comes great disappointment. When Adam Handling opened The Frog near Brick Lane last year, the menu read like an absolute dream. Nonetheless, my expectations weren’t particularly high; I’d imagined The Frog might be one of those restaurants wrought by an overambitious chef who over-promises but under-delivers. I was wrong. The Frog E1 (as it’s now stylised) has since become one of my favourite restaurants, and when the announcement of a new, bigger central London space was...

Taking seven days to shoot and incorporating 78 camera setups and 52 cuts, the shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is one of the most memorable and iconic sequences in cinematic history. In 78/52 director Alexandre O. Philippe looks behind the curtain of Hitchcock’s most famous murder. Joining him is an impressive ensemble of directors, editors, actors, and film historians that includes Bret Easton Ellis, Peter Bogdanovich, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood, and Guillermo de Toro. Each has their own different experience encountering Psycho and each...

This is the incredible moment conjoined twins with two heads and one body were born by caesarean section. Video footage shows doctors pulling the two wailing 8lbs tots from their mother's stomach before wiping them clean. But tragically the babies - who share a body, two arms and two legs - lived for just a day at a hospital in Ambejogai town in Maharashtra, India. This is the incredible moment conjoined twins with two heads and one body were born...