The badger cull in Gloucestershire is to be extended for eight weeks, Natural England confirms.

National Trust director-general Dame Helen Ghosh says the conservation charity has an "open mind" about allowing fracking being carried out on its land.

It's not a myth - women really are better than men at multitasking, and employers should bear this in mind, say the authors of a new study.

Astronomers have discovered the seventh planet orbiting a distant star.

Scientists identify thousands of small regions of DNA that influence the way facial features develop.