Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is reportedly concerned about the title of the second film in the trilogy, The Two Towers, but won’t try to change it
An Irish Protestant minister who does not believe in xmas or that Jesus was the son of god has been suspended from his post for three months to reflect on his statements
An enormous squid that grows seven metres long and lives more than 1,000 metres under the ocean, has baffled scientists with what they call its strange looks and weird behaviour
Arsonists are being blamed for most of the bushfires that are raging throughout NSW, destroying homes and threatening lives in a destructive rampage that is expected to get worse by the weekend
For many elderly people in Britain, computers and the internet are a mystery. Latest official figures show that only one in 10 of those over 65 years old are online. But for one elderly British woman, an early xmas present of a Sony laptop from her stepson, computer consultant Bill Thompson, has opened up a whole new world
A hungry bear ate a hunter in Russia’s Jewish autonomous region in the country’s far east
A British man who went underground behind blast-proof doors and thick concrete to avoid a family xmas has emerged early because he was dying for a pint of beer
A rare case of chest injury in one marijuana user may offer a cautionary tale against home-made bongs
A Florida company is poised to become the first to sell microchips designed to be implanted into human beings, an achievement that opens the door to new systems of medical monitoring and ID screening
The European Space Agency has hit back at American proposals to scale down the operations of the International Space Station
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has denounced as a crime Israel’s decision to ban him from a highly symbolic xmas eve Mass in the West Bank town of Bethlehem
Drop it from a tall building? Hardly a scratch. Shoot it with a submachine gun? It survives. But run it over with a sport utility vehicle or kick it like a football and it crumbles, according to a just published investigation into that evergreen xmas question: How can you get rid of the fruitcake?
Ever wondered how much snot you swallow in a day — a litre — or why your feet smell? Sylvia Branzei could tell you straight off. Disillusioned with the way children are being taught science, she invented Grossology — the science of really gross things
A US astronomer claims he has found the first mention of the star of Bethlehem outside the Bible. The reference is in a 4th-century manuscript written by a Roman astrologer and christian convert called Firmicus Maternus
Microsoft may have touted Windows XP as the most secure operating system it has made, but the company on Thursday released a bug fix for a security hole that could leave some people’s systems open to malicious attack
Xerox has established in court that it is the inventor of handwriting technology used in Palm devices. The next step is to establish damages which, considering the numbers of Palms sold, will run into several million dollars
The joke that was voted for as the best in the world is released by the scientific team who conducted the Web-based experiment
High school students are learning to track cougars as part of a groundbreaking research project that pairs wildlife officials and public schools in an effort to study Washington’s wildcats
New counter-terrorism measures pushed by a government run out of control
will see more Australian agencies able to intercept e-mails for routine investigations, according to civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers of Australia. Australia’s NSW Council for Civil Liberties has described the move as reminiscent of the Soviet Secret Police, the KGB
A research team from CSIRO Minerals is developing a novel 3D imaging camera as part a worldwide push for faster and safer ways to clear land mines. The United Nations estimates that 26,000 people are killed or maimed each year by land mines. Of these, 80 per cent are civilians, especially women, children and farmers in developing countries
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