Being alive can raise the risk of developing cancer, a German-led research project announced today. 

The competing spheres of medical science and the Church were rocked today following the death of an 89 year-old man who, according to a post-mortem, attained his enviable age on a diet solely consisting of bread.

An independent commission has deemed lactose-intolerance as unacceptable and ‘on par with religious intolerance and racism’.

Social networking site Facebook has announced that it will soon be installing “Live Status” chips within every user in order to track their every move.

Technology giant Apple Inc. has made bold move to try and copyright the lowercase letter ‘i’ as part of its plan to monopolise the sector.

Governments across the globe are uniting to sanction the “Truth in Internet Pornography Act” to prevent millions feeling short-changed over wrongly-labelled smut.

In what is considered by many to be the most lucrative collaboration in years, companies whose names are inspired by various kinds of fruit are uniting to take the technological world by storm.

A PC owner took the drastic step of bursting his own eardrums last night in a desperate bid to escape the patronising rant of a Mac user.

Dean Keaton, a vegetable slicer from Wisconsin, is a recent and dissatisfied recipient of penis enlargement surgery.

Researchers have found shocking evidence of a link between global warming and the size of the typeface on The Independent front page.