Two men linked to an alleged al-Qaida associate accused of a plot to attack New York City with home-made bombs were arrested after one of the men caused a road accident while under surveillance.

DADDY salmon plus mummy salmon equals... baby trout? Japanese researchers put a new spin on surrogate parenting as they engineered one fish species to produce another, in a quest to preserve endangered fish.

Robert Moog, whose self-named synthesisers turned electric currents into sound and opened the musical wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71.