A budget insurance firm has created a waiting list for customers looking to protect themselves – against alien damage. Following NASA’s recent announcement about the discovery of seven exoplanets, three of which could potentially support life, speculation has arisen over how we might protect our homes and possessions should damage be caused by life entering our planet. Despite there currently been no insurance products out there to protect us from extraterrestrial life forms one firm has created a waiting list...

This is the moment a slim-built diner became the first ever person to consume one of Britain's biggest breakfasts - in just 35 minutes. Weighing in at a whopping 6lbs (2.73kg), the gut-busting platter includes six sausages, six bacon rashers, six eggs, six hash browns and six slices of black pudding. And on the side are four breads and butter, four toasts and butter, four fried bread, beans, tomatoes, mushrooms, chips, three cans of Pepsi and a jug of water....

A stunning scale-model of the Moon has gone on display to give star-gazers a chance to see it up close. The model - measuring 21 feet in diameter - uses NASA imagery at a sale of 1:500,000 to reveal amazing detail of its pitted surface. 'Museum of the Moon' has gone on display in the Great Hall of the University of Bristol where scientists there examined moon rocks from the first landings in 1969. Designed by artist Luke Jerram, members...

Curious about the investment potential of real estate or wondering if advetorials promising millions of pounds in returns through real estate investment are real? The first thing to do here is to learn how wealth is created through real estate. This article won't focus on the strategies to profit from real estate. Instead, it will focus on the basic ways that money can be generated through real estate. What’s clear is that this hasn’t changed in centuries. Appreciation This is the most common...

By Linda Marric Shot over a three year period, All This Panic is perhaps one of the most comprehensive looks at female youth ever achieved by a documentary film-maker. Director Jenny Page and her cinematographer husband Tom Betterton took on the mammoth task of following a group of girls from New York through some of the most difficult years of their lives. Hormones, mood swings and   tantrums are captured by the director as the girls learn how to navigate around...

TEAM. BUILDING. Two fateful words guaranteed to cause everyone in the office to break into a cold sweat and start nervously eyeballing the fire exits. Forget unsociable hours, forget employee benefit packages, and forget office politics. Nothing instils fear in the minds of business leaders, HR departments and employees alike quite like walking the team-building tightrope. From blood chilling revelations spilt forth in the horror of the ‘confidence circle’, to trust-falling straight to the floor as your colleague is distracted...

Millions of over 50s have suffered age ​discrimination at work, in shops and even in ​their local GP's surgery, the UK’s biggest-ever study into life after 50 has found. ​Since turning 50, almost four in ten people said they experienced some kind of age discrimination with 62 per cent of those believing they have lost out on a job because of it. One respondent, polled by over 50s insurance experts SunLife, was told by a recruitment agency it would be ‘difficult to place her’ due to her age, while another asked to be put​ on...

You wish to hear a tale that’s as old as time itself? How about the saga of a film studio desperate to recapture the magic? We’ve seen Sleeping Beauty from the perspective of the antagonist; had Mowgli’s adventures in the jungle painstakingly retold to us with photo-real clarity; and found ourselves faced with Tim Burton’s warped vision of Wonderland… Never mind finding out if an angelic heroine will be strong enough to break the evil spell placed on a conceited...

Just beneath Sosharu restaurant in Clerkenwell, 7 Tales bar is part of Jason Atherton’s Social Company, which offers a constantly changing cocktail menu of drinks created by bartender Robyn Wilkie. Typically simplistic and influenced by Japanese culture, using Japanese ingredients, the bar’s drinks list generally features a selection of 10-12 cocktails. 7 Tales’ homage to St Patrick’s Day, for instance, combines Irish Jameson whiskey with Japanese Midori liqueur, Asahi lager, yuzu juice and coconut water. The drink is available at...