A landowner has offended villagers by launching a clean-up campaign with posters reading "Don't be a tosser! Take your litter home".

Tens of thousands of Muscovites endured icy temperatures of around minus 20 degrees to attend a protest march against Vladimir Putin yesterday.

'People ask me where I got my strength from... and I don't know'

An aristocrat was today cleared of raping a 16-year-old girl.

A by-law requiring porn actors to wear condoms during film shoots has been tentatively approved by Los Angeles councillors.

About 1,000 demonstrators demanding a rerun of parliamentary elections gathered in central Moscow today for a second weekend of protests against Russia's fraud-tainted vote, a comparatively small crowd that underlined the challenge to the opposition of keeping up public pressure on authorities.

The more a person drinks the more likely they are to have unprotected sex, according to research.

Reports that the health minister in Mario Monti’s new government banned Italian state radio from using of the word “condom” in a series of programmes to mark World Aids Day have outraged HIV campaigners.

Goodness knows I'm a broad-minded broad, but I do yearn somewhat for a time when san-pro ads weren't being thrust down one's throat at every available oppo. I'm old enough to remember when the yowling Bodyform ads were considered a bit beyond the pale. Now you can't turn on the TV or open a magazine without being confronted with more periods than a Morse code manual.

More than one in three Britons (35%) has had unprotected sex with a stranger or new partner while on holiday, according to a poll.

Durex dismissed fears that condom supplies to the UK were under threat yesterday, even though a legal row with a major Indian manufacturer remains unresolved.