Here are seven things that could be improved with just seven minutes of your precious time.

Running for just a few minutes each day can reduce the risk of dying from heart disease, research has shown.

THE gamer community had a near-miss this week in Ohio when a 15-year-old boy collapsed after playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 for up to five days straight.

Teagasc is working with pig farmers to develop a joint programme as part of ambitious growth plans for the sector.

The 2012 Republican presidential race heated up as latecomer Texas Governor Rick Perry formally announced his candidacy and Iowans weighed in for the first time on their expanding field of presidential hopefuls, picking US Representative Michele Bachmann as their top choice for the party’s nomination.

Stephen Cadogan reports from the Lone Star state on the feedlot business, agriculture’s version of the stock market.

MANY men have secretly known it for years, but were too proud to admit it to their friends or, more importantly, themselves.

WILD chimpanzees have been observed making and using “spears” to hunt small animals, it was revealed last night.

CHILDREN need greater protection against increasingly violent video games hitting the market, the European Justice Commissioner warned.

Watching violence on television can encourage a child to act more aggressively even 15 years later, according to one of the few TV violence studies to follow children into adulthood.