The fight against misinformation claiming livestock is the biggest cause of climate change was ratcheted up at last week’s Alltech One 19 conference in the US.

As you are have probably gathered by now the first thing any budding wine enthusiast needs to learn about is grape varieties.

A former University of California policeman who stirred public outrage by pepper-spraying peaceful student protesters has been awarded $38,000 (€27,500) in worker’s compensation for psychiatric damage which he claimed to have suffered from the 2011 incident, the university said.

Louis Owens, a prize-winning novelist and leading scholar on American Indian fiction, has died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, hospital officials said. He was 53.