It's thought the attack may be related to the high summer temperatures perhaps making the cats more aggressive than usual

Research conducted by a University of Cambridge team expands the possibility of creating preventative medicines

The resuscitation was captured on the firefighter's helmet camera

Unicorn Theatre, London

Staff say tiny feline, named Victoria after the station where she was found, is in purr-fect health, despite being only four weeks old

Hiawatha was read to me before I could read. The eponymous protagonist of the long poem (his name means “He Makes Rivers”) is a Native American leader whose mother is called Wenonah and whose father is the West Wind. Hiawatha is a prophet, warrior, and peacemaker. In his spare time, he – accidentally, but most conveniently – discovers corn. On a different day, he invents the written word. The Song of Hiawatha is the kind of book I would have liked to write when I was a child and would like to be able to write now.

Mr Hung was stunned that someone had kept his bones for so long, but happy that when the time comes, they will be buried with him

"Manuscripts don't burn…" In my early teens, hating my school, hating pretty much everything, I was kicking around the rectory kitchen of an aunt who'd drawn the short straw of looking after me for half term when she sighed heavily and stubbed out her cigarette. In the few seconds that elapsed before she lit another, she stamped across to a small bookcase. Pulling a tatty paperback from a shelf, she said, "Stalin's favourite playwright. Don't let that put you off."

Osborne's choice of a £10 takeaway Byron burger has caused a stir, with the Chancellor being quizzed on Radio 4 this morning over his "posh" tastes.

Pets have been found dumped in bins, boxes and even a cemetery in the run-up to the summer holidays as owners choose to abandon them rather than pay for their care while they are away, a charity has said.

Each video of a pug struggling up a flight of stairs takes another mark off your final result, reckons Eleanor Doughty

Our home zoo has expanded once again with the arrival last week of our new Labrador puppy, Fitzgerald. For the past 10 years we have been truly blessed with the existence of Huxley, a black Labrador and close personal friend of quite exceptional intelligence. Now, as Huxley approaches retirement age, we decided as a family that he should have the opportunity of passing on his considerable wisdom to the next generation – hence Fitzgerald.

Nearly 5m people watched the documentary on BBC Two last night

The Prime Minister's authoritarian streak extends to dealing with street cats