Greater use of hypnotherapy to ease the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome would help sufferers and might save money, says a gastroenterologist. Dr Roland Valori, editor of Frontline Gastroenterology, said of the first 100 of his patient...
BBC Radio 3 and World Service presenter Charlie Gillett has died after a long illness, aged 68. Known as a champion of world music, the Lancashire-born broadcaster passed away in a London hospital on Wednesday, his family has confirmed. He...
An artists impression of CoRoT-9b which was spotted by the CoRoT satellite It is 1,500 light-years from Earth but CoRoT-9b is the first temperate planet found known to be similar to those within our own Solar System. The presence of CoRoT-...
About 30 ''Ladies in White'' were stopped on the march in Havana Cuban police have arrested the wives and mothers of political dissidents at a demonstration in the capital, Havana. About 30 members of the Ladies in White were stopped as th...
Two suspected bank robbers, one of them wearing a St Patrick's Day costume, have been killed in a shoot-out with police in Tennessee. First State Bank in the Nashville suburb of Gallatin was held up on Wednesday by a man dressed as a lepre...
The Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has told the BBC that he believes Iran has no intention of developing nuclear weapons. Mr Erdogan said he was confident Iran's nuclear programme was for civilian purposes only and described...
