Writing in the Journal of Natural History, husband-and-wife team Alison and Stephen Cobb claim that the iconic colour pattern helps regulate body temperature.

THE leader of a religious cult ordered a one-year-old boy to be starved to death because he did not say “Amen” before a meal.

Six women whose badly-decomposed bodies were found at the home of a convicted rapist had been murdered, medical experts said.

A crew member on the set of Colin Farrell's upcoming movie Miami Vice is so fed up with the paparazzi constantly hounding him, she's created a new line of "Leave Colin Alone" T-shirts.