Why Coffee is good for you after all!

it's worth getting the bigger picture on the health benefits of coffee The results from long-term studies show just how badly earlier research misjudged the health benefits of the roasted bean.

So here are some reasons why drinking coffee early and often is good for you... More

Happy Feet

Hundreds of penguins have been returned to their native territory in the south Atlantic ocean by an air force plane after being found along Brazil's coast. More

Cadbury gets his mojo back

Like millions of cat owners, there’s nothing Jean Kelly loves more than the sound of her pet gently miaowing as he winds himself round her feet.

So when her cat Cadbury suddenly lost his voice, distressed Jean wasted little time taking him to the vet – and ended up paying £10,000 to get his miaow back again... More

Awww of the week...

A house cat nursing her own kittens has adopted a baby red panda abandoned by its mother.

The panda's mother, Gladys, rejected her two cubs after they were born on June 30. More...

People who post smiley photos on social networking sites attract happy friends.

How happy you are is influenced by your social links to people you've never heard of and never met - that's the conclusion of a US study looking at the spread of happiness and depression across social networks. More

The power of advertising

A 55-year-old woman who advertised for an egg donor on a London bus has given birth to a healthy baby girl.

Linda Weeks, from Maidstone, Kent, and her husband Richard are the proud parents of Katy, born after 14 years of trying for a baby. More

Earthquake miracle

A pupil was pulled to safety from China's earthquake rubble after 80 hours trapped in a wrecked school as incredible stories of survival began to emerge from the disaster zone. More

Never too old...

A woman believed to be Britain's oldest bride has got married again at the age of 94. Bess Atkins married Winston Barraclough, 86, at St Nicholas Church in Hornsea, East Yorkshire, after he popped the question on New Year's Day this year.

She had been married once before, at the same church almost 70 years ago, and said the event brought back "a lot of happy memories". More

Chocolate testers wanted!

Adorable Lion Cubs

Three newborn lion cubs have become the star attraction at the Shizuoka Zoo in Japan. - possibly one of the cutest videos I have seen in a long time...watch here

Midwife mum's identical baby triplet girls are a 200 million-to-one miracle

Gabriella, Alessia and Olivia are happy to be known as the 200 million to one girls. Their arrival in the world caused quite a stir as these are the odds of a mother giving birth to naturally-conceived identical triplets. More

Unfair bank charges - test case goes in customers' favour!

The Office of Fair Trading has won a High Court test case over bank charges - a major step that could pave the way for millions of people to be reimbursed charges banks have slapped on their accounts in the past six years. More

Cuddling good for premature babies

Kangaroo mother care - or cuddling premature babies  close to the mother' skin, lessens pain in even very preterm babies. It works in premature infants of 32 to 36 weeks' gestation, according to an earlier study, and a study has now found that it can help in babies born as early as 28 weeks... More...