Six Billion Worlds

'Airbrush warnings' are being suggested by the UK's Royal College of Psychiatrists in the fight against anorexia.

"There's no longer a serious risk that southern Somalia could become a jihadi operational deployment facility. It already is."

China's internet censors are now on the run from a satirical lizard.

How Girl Guides across Africa are giving hope to child soldiers and teenage prostitutes.

Audio Slideshow: How the DR Congo's UN-backed expulsion of the Rwandan FDLR is making the plight of local people even worse.

Life imitates SF

Where life actually can't imitate SF: three films that are "almost deliberately wrong just to irritate the scientists in the audience."

Maurice Hurley, Star Trek's creator of the Borg, once said the Borg were perhaps not such a good analogy for Communism but maybe a better analogy for the United States, which assimilates everything: today saw the unveiling of what looks suspiciously like a Borg Cube that will arrive in London in 2017.

The real Spiderman who suckers his way up walls.