Two university employees wanted over the stabbing death of a Chicago man have surrendered peacefully in California and will be returned to Chicago for interrogation, authorities said.

A US professor and a University of Oxford employee wanted over the fatal stabbing of a Chicago man have been detained in California, police said.

Richard Collins examines the possibilities for marine life should they evolve to leave the waters and come on land.

Gone are the days of feeling past it when you hit 45 — just look at the long list of celebs revelling in their new-found youth, says Dave Kenny.

BEDROOM SPARKS: People who say they have experienced “fireworks” in the bedroom may not be completely exaggerating. 

I’m newly pregnant and my libido has been very up and down. I’m aware that I won’t be able to have sex for a while after the birth. What will happen to my libido during my pregnancy and is there anything I can do? I don’t want to lose the sexual closeness that I have with my husband.

Smartphones could provide a handy way of telling when people are depressed, according to researchers.

You may not think it, but compared to our closest animal relatives humans grow incredibly slowly – more like reptiles than mammals.

Bacon and egg and …

US Amateur champion Matthew Fitzpatrick leaves innocent ways behind him today as he starts life in the professional ranks at Fota Island Resort.

The signs are up around Times Square again: the NFL Draft is upon us and, tomorrow night, New York City will be invaded by football players whose suits are as sharp as their eyes are dull.

Smoking cannabis alters the size and shape of two key brain regions involved in emotion and motivation, research has shown.

Morning sunshine does more than get you up – it can improve your weight, research suggests.

A new class of experimental medicines can dramatically lower cholesterol, raising hopes of a fresh option for people who cannot tolerate or do not get enough help from Lipitor and other statins used for decades.

Genes play a large part in determining the sexual orientation of men, scientists have shown.

Genes play a large part in determining the sexual orientation of men, scientists have shown.

Matthew Fitzpatrick did not get his wish to meet Tiger Woods during the 142nd Open Championship trophy ceremony, not that the Sheffield teenager failed to keep up his end of the bargain.

A difficult week at Muirfield got even trickier for Open Championship organisers the R&A yesterday as some golfers rounded on near unplayable greens on the sun-parched Scottish links.

DEAR married, male friends, can you imagine a more irritating task?

Tiny synthetic particles could help scientists to develop vaccines against immune response diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS), research has shown.

Tensions over how to pay proper respect to the dead are overshadowing New York’s 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero as a gap widens between survivors and the general public 11 years after the event.

In book format for 244 years, Britannica is downsizing to an internet presence, its hefty print edition no longer viable, says Richard Fitzpatrick

Universities in the US have purchased x-rated domain names to prevent pornography practitioners from using them.

A YEAR ago last weekend, tremors of excitement reverberated through America’s midwest.

Musical ability is biologically linked to literacy, a US study has found.

IN what may seem like news to women everywhere, a study has found that men are less likely to stray after having children because fatherhood lowers testosterone.

A study in the US has found that religion makes people obese.

PEAR-SHAPED women who find slimming a challenge may end up “losing it” in other ways, research suggests.

“THE posters are definitely different to what people usually see” – Councillor Sarah Ryan, 25, is slow to admit it but being young, female and good looking is helping her and others like her, get noticed in the local election campaign.

A rush-hour crawl that gave vehicles little momentum to slide into the river and a bridge design that minimised falling debris appear to have kept the death toll relatively low in the collapse of a bridge into the Mississippi River.

US President George Bush plans to visit the site of a bridge collapse in Minneapolis today after Congress voted to direct $250m (€181m) for the structure to be rebuilt.

Fears that an interstate bridge collapse in Minnesota might produce dozens of deaths eased today as US authorities said the number of missing, once thought to be as many as 30, was just eight.

STEM cells taken from the blood of a few diabetes patients have ‘re-set’ their immune systems, helping 14 out of 15 live for months and even years without insulin, latest research has found.

The sound sets teeth on edge, makes skin crawl and sends a shiver down the spine. Just thinking about it gives some people the heebie-jeebies according to a US magazine.

Watching footage of terrorist attacks and their aftermath on television can alter the structure of the brain, experts said today.

Now that a US jury has delivered a verdict that al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui is eligible for the death penalty, his lawyers face an uphill battle as they try to save a client who apparently wants to die.

MIDDLE-AGED people who are overweight but have normal blood pressure and cholesterol levels are kidding themselves if they think their health is just fine, scientists have warned.

The Sumatra earthquake that triggered the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami was the second largest on record, it was revealed today.

Former Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi and his nephew Salem – head of the tribunal trying Saddam Hussein – have dismissed charges against them as "ridiculous".

Luke Donald, not even eligible for the Ryder Cup five weeks ago, was today significantly closer to a place in the team following his maiden European Tour victory in the Scandinavian Masters.

LUKE DONALD cruised to his first European Tour title in the Scandinavian Masters to enhance his claims for a Ryder Cup wild card.

Luke Donald will take a three-shot lead into the final round of the Scandinavian Masters as he chases a first European Tour win and Ryder Cup wild card.

Illinois governor George Ryan cleared the state’s death row, commuting 167 condemned inmates’ sentences in the broadest attack on capital punishment in decades.

Changes in the way Europe picks its Ryder Cup team are even more likely following Luke Donald’s victory in America.