Why does life appear to speed up as we get older? And how come 'fast food' always seems to take so long? Matilda Battersby finds out how the clock plays tricks with our minds

US Outlook Nobody mentioned the name Greg Smith, though it is barely two months since the London-based trader quit Goldman Sachs citing a "toxic" culture where clients were regarded as "muppets" to be ripped off wherever possible.

Raced around the streets and harbour of the tiny principality of Monte-Carlo, the Monaco Grand Prix brings howling V8's and the glamour of the Formula One circus to the idyllic home of the super rich jet set.

'Miiiiiiitch!!!' screams Hayley the glamour model. 'I bet you wish Amy was here!!!'

Matthew Bourne's renowned reinterpretation of Swan Lake is now showing as a 3D film. This is how the project took flight

Men-only Palme d'Or shortlist provokes condemnation from French film-makers

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Spain's Treasury said on today it will auction three bonds on 17 May.

Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest calendar of the ancient Maya civilisation of Central America. It was written on the walls of a building within a vast lost city buried in the jungles of Guatemala.

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If you could put a price on anticipation, the sum being conjured in the auction room of Sotheby's in New York last night was $80m, though it wasn't just about the punters with paddles stretching all the way to the back. Pay attention also to the buyers at the end of phone lines in Dubai, Moscow or Hong Kong.

Being born deaf didn't hold him back on the way to becoming world champion. Now his mission is to sprinkle glamour on a popular pub game

The Grand National is finally here and for twelve months now punters have been backing Grand National runners in the hope of finding the winner of the most difficult puzzle in racing. Judging by previous renewals of the Grand National though there are horses who would perhaps be better off not lining up in the race with the winner often having a certain profile each year. Stats can be used to narrow down the field dramatically and many fancied runners this year don’t fit the usual profile of a Grand National winner. All of the Grand National Runners are listed in full here

You could never accuse radio of dodging the Big Questions. I'm not talking about programmes that weigh up the merits of pensions over ISAs, cabbage over kale or Boris over Ken, as life altering as these topics may be. I'm referring to the shows that confront the questions that have occupied philosophers for centuries, the ones that seek to determine why we are the way we are and invariably end up making your head hurt. Where television is often reluctant to go down such a high-minded road, preferring to explore human behaviour by getting said humans to dance in wheelbarrows in front of Simon Cowell, radio remains undaunted, continuing to ponder life's imponderables without apology.