The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva will be out of action until the Spring while engineers investigate a fault, it was announced.

Charlie Watts' throat cancer scare almost scuppered The Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang world tour before it even started - frontman Mick Jagger insists he would have cancelled the whole thing if his bandmate was unable to hit the road.

Astronomers have peered deeper into the depths of the universe than ever before to obtain a startling view of the earliest galaxies, it emerged today.