THE sudden rise in certain birth abnormalities in warm countries may be caused by Zika virus infection, writes Richard Collins

USA: Pennsylvania state police say they’ve arrested a woman for two different drink-driving crashes in the same day.

State pathologist Marie Cassidy has said that she was surprised at the jury’s guilty verdict in the Graham Dwyer murder trial, based on the lack of pathological evidence.

The Sanctuary nightclub, where Karen Buckley was last seen, is a busy nightspot popular with students and young people living in the city’s West End that has been open for more than a decade.

LIFE IN LEGO

IT SEEMS that mother really does know best, particularly when it comes to baby food.

Gordon Brown, the former British prime minister, yesterday warned Scots of a pensions timebomb in their ageing population as he joins a fight to dissuade them from voting to leave the UK.

The number of concussions reported in the Aviva Premiership rose last season - but medical experts believe this is due to more awareness of the head injuries.

NATASHA Solomons had a deadline. It was Aug 2012. She had to finish her third novel before the birth of her first baby.

The Sixties and Beyond: Dechristianization in North America and Western Europe, 1945-2000

City living alters our daily body clock, making us active for longer and less rested, a study suggests.

Five stroke victims have shown small signs of recovery following pioneering stem cell therapy.

The images of a heaving Celtic Park on Wednesday night as coach Neil Lennon, players and 60,000 fans celebrated the famous Champions League over Barcelona on the club’s 125th anniversary night will long be remembered, but one of the week’s most striking photos was that of Barca stars Xavi Hernández, Lionel Messi and Andrés Iniesta posing with Celtic’s 125-year anniversary kit.

MATT McGUIRE

There can’t be too many figures of historical significance whose birthday is about to be celebrated with a curry, many hundreds of years after their death.

Men have to gain less weight than women to develop type 2 diabetes, new research shows.

IRELAND were pipped at the post in a gripping finale to the Women’s Amateur Home International at rain-sodden Whitchurch in Cardiff yesterday.

SCIENTISTS have said that they had discovered how a girl born with half a brain has both fields of vision in one eye.

A NEW generation of MP3 players could provide music lovers with millions of songs at their fingertips, it was revealed yesterday.

Scientists hired by Mohamed al Fayed to question findings on Henri Paul's blood alcohol levels concluded he had a drink problem, the Diana inquest heard today.

A BREAKTHROUGH treatment that promises a much-improved life quality for asthma sufferers was unveiled yesterday by British scientists.

WBO featherweight champion Scott Harrison has been forced to vacate his title “on medical advice”.

Average house prices in the North have rocketed past £180,000 (€267,200), with values rising by a third in the last year, it was revealed today.

WBO featherweight title holder Scott Harrison has become embroiled in a row with his management team following suggestions he struggles to make the weight.

Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was tonight elected rector of a Scottish university.

Shell Jubin tonight became the first of the final four Big Brother contestants to be evicted from the house.

Big Brother’s Michelle and Stuart rekindled their romance today after a lovers’ tiff.

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of Stone Age houses going back 7,000 years on an island off the coast of the United Arab Emirates.

A sniffer device used in the search for new reserves of oil and gas could be used as a form of breathalyser to detect early signs of lung cancer, experts said today.

LABOUR MP George Galloway is no stranger to controversy. He once flew the Palestinian flag from Dundee's council offices, when he was a local representative there.

A NEW study has established that beauty may be in the eye of the beer holder rather than the beholder.

An independent inquiry into the foot-and-mouth crisis in the British county worst-hit by the disease was due to begin today.

Lawyers for a former Libyan secret service agent today appealed to a Scottish court to overturn his conviction for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people, claiming to have new evidence proving a miscarriage of justice.

Police throughout Europe will be able to track dangerous paedophiles through a new secure website.