A man confined to a wheelchair five years ago is able to walk again after scientists reconnected his brain and legs.

Eva Carneiro isn’t the first club employee to fall foul of Jose Mourinho.

The families of six students killed in a balcony collapse in the US are expected to learn today the early indications of the cause of the accident.

'On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your pain...?'

This ingenious idea comes in the form of a temporary tattoo that strips electrons from our perspiration, creating a weak electric current.

Q. My girlfriend is a really great and generous person, but she is lazy in bed, and barely ever bothers with foreplay.

With a California town grieving the deaths of six college students killed by a mentally ill man, one victim’s father blamed the killings on politicians who failed to tighten gun laws after a mass school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

Sweets to the rescue as chimps take over

Scientists have embarked on one of the strangest experiments ever — to see whether atoms of exotic antimatter fall up instead of down.

As the big stars preen themselves before the cameras of the world, one of the proudest people at the glitzy Academy Awards in Hollywood on Sunday night will be a quiet Kerry woman.

Scientists at University College Cork have developed an innovative way to target cancer treatment at tumours — by placing the drug in bacteria which attaches to the tumours.

The average cost of a four-year college degree in the US is $102,000. Such an investment writes James Pressley in his review of Enrico Moretti’s The New Geography of Jobs, might just be worth it to help the country’s cities prosper

Food safety experts played down the risk of mad cow disease entering America's food supply, a day after a government agency detected the first new case of the disease in the US since 2006.

On the eve of his 65th birthday, Iggy Pop can look back with pride on surviving his career in rock’n’roll, says Ian Forde

MITT Romney, the frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, is promising Americans deep spending cuts, smaller government, trade penalties on China, a new Federal Reserve chairman and sweeping deregulation.

Dozens of people have been arrested during Occupy demonstrations at the University of California's Berkeley campus as authorities twice clashed with protesters trying to set up encampments.

TAKING care of your body just might save your mind. Millions of cases of Alzheimer’s disease worldwide could be prevented by curbing risk factors such as high blood pressure, smoking, obesity and lack of exercise.

POWER walks could be life-savers for men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer, a study has found.

A HIT-AND-RUN victim who was completely paralysed from the waist down has stood up on his own and taken faltering steps on a treadmill after pioneering treatment.

A WOMAN who has not uttered a word for more than a decade has had her speech restored thanks to a pioneering transplant.

ONE of the country’s top cancer scientists has won Junior Chamber International’s most outstanding young person of the year award.

Two quick-thinking police employees at the University of California, Berkeley described how they set in motion Jaycee Lee Dugard’s release after nearly two decades of captivity when they encountered her alleged captor on campus.

IN The Hangover, Heather Graham plays a stripper escort, a role that appeared to come naturally to the 39-year-old beauty.

Levels of a hormone produced by the placenta half way through pregnancy could provide a test for women at risk of post-natal depression, new research suggests.

Researchers in the United States have begun a major study on a vaccine to prevent smoking.

A female ex-postal worker opened fire at a mail processing plant, killing six people before committing suicide, authorities said early today.

A REVIEW of medical evidence has found that foetuses do not feel pain until the final months of pregnancy - a powerful challenge to abortion opponents who hope that discussions about foetal pain will make women think twice.

Even in death, Superman star Christopher Reeve is promoting human embryonic stem cell research.

AN enigmatic radio signal spotted on three separate occasions is the best candidate yet for a message from ET, it was claimed yesterday.

The American editor of Forbes Magazine’s Russian edition and author of a book about tycoon Boris Berezovsky has been shot dead, the magazine said.

A rocket carrying the largest-diameter infrared telescope ever put into space took off today.

NASA scientists want to pay twins $100 a day to either stay in bed for a month or work out on a combination treadmill/vacuum cleaner.

Leading fashion and celebrity photographer Herb Ritts has died from complications of pneumonia at the age of 50.

THE formerly conjoined twin sisters from Guatemala who were surgically separated in early August may return home as early as next month, Los Angeles hospital officials said yesterday.

SCIENTISTS said the first global survey of the health of the world’s coral reefs shows they are in serious decline, with overfishing worsening a crisis situation.

Deena Beasley, Los Angeles

One-year-old Guatemalan twins joined at the head were separated in a marathon operation in Los Angeles - but one sister was returned to surgery a few hours later because of bleeding on her brain.

A controversial French philosopher has reiterated claims that the Gulf War never happened.