India: When a northern Indian state announced a few hundred job openings for low-level office workers who run errands and make tea, they were staggered by the response — 2.3m people applied.

Climate change helped in the design of dogs, forging man’s best friend from a creature that was more like a cat, scientists have learned.

Nine people who were working on a reconstruction project in the remote north of Afghanistan have been shot dead in an attack on a guesthouse, an official said.

Wondering how to keep your teenager busy this summer when summer jobs are thin on the ground? Fancy tipping your toe back into education? Grainne McGuinness is raving about MOOCs, short online courses, many of which are free.

A man escaped with barely a scratch after a 3in nail hurtled into his eye when he accidentally hit it with a strimmer.

A man escaped with barely a scratch after a 3-inch nail hurtled into his eye when he accidentally hit it with a strimmer.

Emma Watson said she is “so excited” to have been appointed the United Nation’s Women’s Goodwill Ambassador.

Harry Potter star Emma Watson has graduated from a US university.

Emma Watson has revealed she had doubts about a career in acting after the Harry Potter films ended.

Emma Watson is dating an Oxford University rugby hunk.

Emma Watson has turned down films to focus on her university exams.

Multiple births are increasingly the result of drugs given to women to make them produce eggs – not from using multiple embryos from IVF, or lab-dish fertilisation, new research shows.

From soft, coo-like whimpers to heartbreaking sobs, a baby’s cries can evoke strong emotions, and yet the reasons for crying can remain mysterious.

Ben Affleck's been awarded an honorary degree by one of America's top universities.

Ben Affleck is getting an honorary degree from Brown University.

Emma Watson has admitted that she is obsessed with being perfect.

Emma Watson has confirmed that she is planning to return to college in America.

Emma Watson says guys ignore her at first and are then mean to her.

Demi Moore and Bruce Willis’s daughter Scout can do community service to resolve her public drinking and fake ID case, a US judge said today.

Demi Moore is reportedly refusing to go to rehab.

Ten years after Nato’s invasion, the Taliban are stronger that ever, and hopes for peace a long way off, writes Katherine Haddon.

Emma Watson opted to go to university in America because she felt "claustrophobic".

EMMA WATSON is pretty convinced that she has nothing left to prove when it comes to making and starring in huge blockbuster movies.

Emma Watson is enrolling at Oxford University, and is due to start her studies in October.

Emma Watson has taken to her website to deny claims that bullying drove her to take a break from university.

Emma Watson, the British actress who plays Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series, has denied reports that she was bullied out of Brown University in Rhode Island, US.

Harry Potter actress Emma Watson has denied she is leaving an American university because she gets bullied.

Richard Holbrooke, a long-time US diplomat who was the architect of the 1995 Bosnia peace plan and served as President Barack Obama's special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, has died at the age of 69, an administration official said.

HARRY POTTER star Emma Watson has a whole host of attributes.

Emma Watson finds drinking alcohol “disrespectful”.

Emma Watson has reportedly lined up her first post-'Harry Potter' role.

Emma Watson is too “busy” to have a boyfriend.

Daniel Radcliffe admits he will be “devastated” when filming wraps on the final ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Dinosaurs came to rule the world as a direct result of a mass extinction similar to the one that killed them off and allowed mammals to take over the planet, research has shown.

The ‘Harry Potter’ actress Emma Watson has decided to end her relationship with financier Jay Barrymore, with friends blaming their long-distance romance as the reason for the break-up.

'Harry Potter' star Emma Watson has a career to fall back on if acting roles ever dry up - she's secretly an accomplished artist.

An orbiting spacecraft has discovered a key mineral in bedrock on the surface of Mars that suggests the planet might once have had an environment hospitable to life, scientists reported today.

WATER bathed the surface of southern Mars for millions of years, helping to create an environment theoretically capable of nurturing life, according to a study into the planet’s mysterious oceans.

OSCAR the nursing home cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours.

HUMANS and sea urchins are unlikely cousins, a blueprint of the sea-creature’s genetic code has revealed.

Kevin Costner has fired back at Hollywood gossip suggesting he and his new wife Christine Baumgartner are on the verge of splitting up.

FORGET counting carbs and calories. Obesity researcher Dr David Katz says the way to lose weight is to limit flavours.

A SEVERELY paralysed man has become the first person to be fitted with a brain implant that allows him to control everyday objects by thought alone.

Hollywood director Spike Lee has told students that popular music portrays blacks in a negative light.