A “revolutionary” device that helps people use sounds to build images in their brain could be used as an alternative to invasive treatment for the blind, scientists say.

A grandmother has tried to use a barbecue to dry her clothes.

Firefighters have offered to give Coldplay star Chris Martin free safety lessons after it emerged that his culinary disasters have led to calls to emergency services.

Woody Harrelson didn't think he could play a policeman because he is "anti-authoritarian".

Victims of the sex crimes six men of tiny Pitcairn Island experienced "a mix of emotions" when told of the sentences handed down to the men, a policewoman close to the victims said.

SIX men were convicted of a string of sex attacks on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn following trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse of children on the tiny home of descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers.

Pitcairn islander Mike Warren has said he believed the prosecutions of a number of men from the island on sex abuse charges were a British “set-up”.

Six Pitcairn islanders were convicted today of a string of sex attacks, following trials that exposed a culture of abuse on the remote British Pacific territory, home to descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers.

A TRACTOR driver pleaded guilty to sex crimes on Pitcairn Island but he pleaded innocent to a further 12 charges.

A tractor driver pleaded guilty to sex crimes on Pitcairn Island, home to descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers, but he pleaded innocent to a further 12 charges.

A Pitcairn Island man on trial for sex abuse used to act as though young girls were available for him whenever he chose, a prosecutor said in a makeshift courtroom on the remote rocky outcrop populated by descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers.

A series of tornados today swept through the midwest United States, killing as many as 19 people and leaving a path of destruction a quarter-mile wide in some places.