If you ask me... never machine-wash a giant woolly vagina

Tony Blair found it so difficult to work with Gordon Brown that he complained that "dealing with GB is like having dental treatment with no anaesthetic", Alistair Darling recalls in his memoirs.

A study of 50,000 graduates who left university in 2007 has found that they are more likely to be unemployed than their predecessors.

Huddled on a neon-pink sofa in Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's palatial sitting room, six young men shout abuse at a giant television mounted on the wall. As an image of their absent host, Muammar Gaddafi's son and heir, flashes across the screen, they shout in Arabic: "Die you murderer, you dirty dog."

Sherry Cracker, the far from normal heroine of Connell's second novel, is a loner, obsessive note-taker and lover of tartan trousers. She works for Mr Chin, who runs a business buying used gold from dentists.

Leon Hood explores UK students’ options for pursuing medicine and dentistry in eastern Europe

Head to the Caribbean to enrol on a course that could change your life, writes Simon Midgeley

With competition to get into medical schools hotting up, many students are looking abroad, says Russ Thorne

It is impossible to think about the latest depressing figures on youth unemployment without remembering the riots.

Spain has a lot to offer aspiring medical or dental students. Entry requirements tend to be slightly lower than they are in the UK, and it usually costs less to live there. Yet that doesn’t mean you’ll receive a poorer education. Spain offers advanced teaching facilities in modern universities, courses taught in English, and the chance to experience Spanish culture first-hand.

An "intoxicated" chef has admitted attacking a kitchen worker after the restaurant critic AA Gill told him that the food was "disgusting".