Voyager 1 has crossed a new frontier, becoming the first spacecraft ever to leave the solar system, Nasa says.

Voyager 1 has crossed a new frontier, becoming the first spacecraft ever to leave the solar system, Nasa said today.

The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut are the latest in the United States’ long history of massacres at schools and colleges.

The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut are just the latest in the US’s long history of massacres at schools and colleges.

Nathan Englander talks to Colette Sheridan about ‘cultural Judaism’ and his dedication to the short story

One of the world’s smallest surviving babies was discharged from the Los Angeles hospital where she spent nearly five months in an incubator – but not before getting the Hollywood treatment.

A “FACEBOOK feature” in the brain may be vital to your social life, research suggests.

A WOMAN who knows no fear because of damage to a key emotion centre in her brain is lucky to be alive, scientists have said.

MORE than 38,000 residents in 26 Iowa communities were evacuated from their homes yesterday.

Receding water revealed widespread damage today in Iowa’s second-largest city, Cedar Rapids, caused by a record flood peak, while other Iowa cities faced rivers that were still rising, following a series of storms that left at least 15 people dead.