Eating half a handful of nuts every day could substantially lower the risk of early death, a Dutch study suggests.

UN peacekeepers regularly barter goods for sex with people in the countries the world body is meant to be helping, a draft UN report says.

After Chongqing in China and Washington DC in US, now Antwerp in Belgium has it’s own “text walking lanes”. A local smartphone specialist, MLab, discovered that a lot of people text while walking, then bump into each other and drop their smartphones. With broken screens, buttons or trashed cases as a result.

Scientists may make fun of astrologers for saying that your birth month exerts a profound effect on your personality and direction in life, but a new study finds them singing a similar refrain.

"Newzbeat" makes a catchy change from a standard news bulletin: Ugandans call the broadcasters "rap-orters", a youth team of hip-hop artists-turned-journalists rapping the headlines.

Doctors in China have removed 420 kidney stones from a single patient, it's reported.

Trouble seems to be mounting for Nestle's Maggi globally too with Bahrain and Canada moving against the product.