USA: New Orleans police are investigating an armed robbery in which the assailant walked away with only 35 cents. Two men, aged 33 and 29, were robbed by a man armed with a semi-automatic gun in the city’s Carrollton area.

Twixtmas, you say? What’s that when it’s at home tucked up with a hot water bottle and a hot whiskey?

Six new cases of foot-and-mouth have been confirmed as the latest surge of the outbreak continues.

A rare bird of prey has been found dead after ingesting a fatal dose ofpoison, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said today.