Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has applied for admission to the University of Oslo, testing the limits of Norway’s commitment to rehabilitate criminals rather than punish them.

KJERSTI studied mathematics, and became a computer engineer. Then she became ill, and moved home to recover. Lying in bed, she started to write about an old woman on post-it notes. Then she turned the notes into a novel.

Scientists today unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossil which could be the evolutionary “missing link” between humans and our very distant ancestors.