A YOGURT that slows down ageing. A peanut without allergens. Tastes you’ve never even imagined.

Peanut allergies could, in a matter of years, be a thing of the past — or more accurately the offending nut might be about to be cracked — if a Canadian start-up has its way.

Doctors in Shanghai have successfully separated 10-month-old conjoined twin girls, though their condition remained precarious due to heart and other problems, a Chinese hospital official said today.

A Chinese man has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail for digging up a woman’s corpse and eating her ears, nose and breasts, the government has said.