Investigation by a tech website supposedly reveals lines of code used to manipulate benchmark tests

It had the scent of a PR stunt best filed under “B” for “balls”. But in the interests of the nation’s health (and my editor’s demands) I agreed to undergo a workout billed as a cure for a very modern affliction.

Swatch, the world’s biggest watch maker, cheered investors yesterday with a first-half rise in profits despite a crackdown in China on traditional gift giving.

Padraig Harrington and Sergio Garcia have history. Or, as psychologists today like to say: “They have issues.” The bad luck of the draw thrust them together for the third round. It didn’t take long for one of them to become irritated by the other.

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A new clock has been developed by Parisian scientists that could redefine the second.

Move indicates company's intent to create a smartwatch

We should be proud to think that dandyism is an English thing. It began here in 1799, with the rise of George Bryan “Beau” Brummel, was heroically mimicked by Lord Byron, slavishly imitated across the Channel by the poet Baudelaire and the flâneur Alfred Comte d’Orsay, brought to a pitch of decadence by the peacock excess of Robert Conte de Montesquiou, went transatlantic and film-starry in the 1920s and 1930s (Cary Grant, Noël Coward, Fred Astaire) and went crazy in Sixties London with the tailors Tommy Nutter, Douglas Hayward and Michael Fish, before disappearing under the invasion of jeans and T-shirts that closed the 20th century.

Researchers compared the internal rhythms of blackbirds living in the countryside and in urban areas and found they differ significantly

Site simply replicates time from the user's own computer

Dr Davinder Jeet Bains, 46, used his position as a GP in Royal Wootton Bassett, near Swindon, Wiltshire, to assault more than two dozen women

The Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles, visited Leicester County Hall and expressed his desire to get people who don’t have jobs “off the sofa of despair

Depressed people live in parallel time zone, scientists find

The man who allegedly murdered schoolgirl Tia Sharp told a prison officer her death was an accident and insisted “I’m not like Ian Huntley [the Soham murderer]”, a court has heard.