A scientific speed dating night at the Edinburgh International Science Festival will now give people the opportunity to check out each other’s odours.

The latest figures from the Bank of England showed the number of mortgages advanced to new homeowners stood at 70,309 last month.

Research by Forza Supplements revealed the best time to eat breakfast is 7.11am, the key time to have lunch is 12.38pm and the best time for dinner is 6.14pm.

Launching the report in Yokohama, Japan, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change also predicted that rising temperatures will exacerbate poverty and damage land and marine species.

Florida had not been to the Final Four since all those future first-round draft picks were in Gainesville. Wisconsin and coach Bo Ryan had never been.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The moderate-payroll San Diego Padres pulled one over on the big-spending Los Angeles Dodgers.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A hotly disputed Senate torture report concludes that waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods provided no key evidence in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to congressional aides and outside experts familiar with the investigation.

DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — The rains that have bedeviled rescuers working to find more victims in the debris field from the deadly Washington state mudslide are expected to ease this week, but searchers faced other challenges at the site like household chemicals and sewage.

WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Co approved ignition switches for cars that have been linked to 13 deaths, even though the parts did not appear to meet the company’s specifications, officials of Delphi Automotive told U.S. congressional investigators. In a memo released on Sunday by the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, documents provided […]

Ask yourself: Why do governments finance their expenditures with inflation rather than simply by raising taxes? The answer is a simple one: With taxes, everyone knows that the government's the culprit because people can …