Special teams of police, social workers, mental health practitioners, and community and religious leaders are needed to try and identify potential lone- wolf terrorists, according to a security expert.

Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo returns to his old city tonight, for the Champions League semi-final first leg at Manchester City, with a feeling he is coming towards another crucial moment in his career.

Lisa Salmon looks at the benefits of cutting back on alcohol    

SEPTEMBER 27 brought the advent of butterflies, the first fall or hatch we’ve seen this butterfly-less summer. 

Climate change could have “potentially catastrophic effects” for human health, undermining all the health gains in the last half century, experts have warned.

The scientist and broadcaster Professor Brian Cox has said it was wrong the way a Nobel laureate scientist was “hounded out” of his university posting over controversial comments he made about women working in laboratories.

A Nobel laureate who resigned from University College London after making comments about the ”trouble with girls” in science has said he was the victim of an “enormous rush to judgment”.

A Nobel laureate whose comments about the “trouble with girls” involved in science sparked an outcry has resigned from University College London (UCL).

Parents who watch three hours of television a day could be affecting their children’s TV viewing habits for the next three decades, research suggests.

EU migrants to the UK paid more in tax than they received in benefits in the past decade, according to a report that threatens to stoke the political debate over immigration.

Tens of thousands of lives could be saved every year if all smokers switched from cigarettes to e-cigarettes, British experts have said.

Tens of thousands of lives could be saved every year if all British smokers switched from cigarettes to e-cigarettes, experts have said.

Work is under way to see if loss of the sense of smell is an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease.

Canals motorways, even minor roads, can divide animal populations and keep them separate from each other.

One Vernal Equinox later and we can be fresher, tidier, slimmer and happier, says Kya deLongchamps.

Reports of the death of Facebook have been “greatly exaggerated”, the boss of a major market researcher into digital customers has said.

Authors write about misery and unhappiness around 10 years after they have experienced an economic downturn, a study has found.

President: Paddy McCaul

For most people, venturing to the highest mountain range in the world is a culmination of years of training and dedication, the ultimate challenge for passionate mountaineers.

One in 14 women have an eating disorder in the first three months of their pregnancy, according to research published yesterday.

Celtic's Champions League success helped virtually wipe out their bank debt as they made a pre-tax profit of almost £15m in the second half of last year.

THIS SUMMER’S London 2012 Olympic Games poses the greatest operational and security challenge the city has faced since the Second World War.

Hopes have increased that a way may be found to treat blindness by replacing lost light-sensitive cells in the back of the eye.

A new prostate cancer treatment could provide more effective treatment with fewer side effects according to a new report.

A Nigerian who tried to blow up an international flight near Detroit on behalf of al Qaida started a life sentence without parole today.

A pill to mend broken hearts could be a reality in as little as five years if enough support is given to early research, it was claimed today.

V Festival organisers are hoping Cheryl Cole will still perform at the event, saying they have not been told that she is pulling out.

Babies given solid foods before they are four months old are more likely to become overweight toddlers.

Security services were warned of a terrorist bomb plot weeks before the failed Christmas Day airliner attack, it was claimed today.

The Christmas Day airline bomb plot suspect helped organise a “war on terror” conference while studying in the UK, it emerged today.

Pictures have been released in America of the burnt underwear worn by the man who allegedly tried to blow up a plane above Detroit on Christmas Day.

The man at the centre of the failed Detroit airliner bomb plot had been banned from entering Britain, it was disclosed today.

Al-Qaida warned of a terror attack just days before a former British student allegedly attempted to blow up a transatlantic airliner carrying 278 passengers, it was revealed tonight.

Celtic have reported pre-tax profits of £10.07m for the six months to December 31 2007.

SCIENTISTS hope to deliver the world’s first stem cell treatment for blindness within five years.

A European-built probe blasted into space today in a bid to explore Earth’s mysterious neighbour, Venus.

Manual workers suffer the effects of old age 15 years earlier than people in office jobs, new research has revealed.

Adults who smoke heavily develop poorer memories in middle age, according to a new British study .