A newly discovered 6ft lizard that is up to 40 million years old has been named after The Door’s frontman Jim Morrison – adding a whole new meaning to the words ‘musical scale’.

This comedy is hit and miss, but will probably earn a Best Picture Oscar nomination

President Barack Obama became significantly more likely to block the Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL oil sands pipeline after the US environmental regulator said a government report that in effect endorsed the project was based on "insufficient" research.

The star of the Ashcan School was influenced by the Impressionists. Yet for all the surface charm, his work shows a fear of what lies beneath

Collisions with road vehicles are driving a population of swallows to evolve into faster, more agile fliers with shortened wings.

Where are you now and what can you see?

Chuck Hagel is set to be sworn in as Barack Obama’s latest Defence Secretary today, ending one of the most controversial appointment sagas in US history.

Chuck Hagel, the former Republican senator picked by President Barack Obama as his new Secretary of Defence, had a rocky audition on Capitol Hill today as he sought to fend off criticism of his past positions on such hot-zone topics as relations with Israel and Iran and the war in Iraq.

Nominees for posts of Defence Secretary and head of CIA can expect rough ride from senators

The last state in the 2012 presidential race has been called, with Florida going narrowly to President Obama.

President Barack Obama was declared the winner of Florida's 29 electoral votes today, ending a four-day count with a razor-thin margin that narrowly avoided an automatic recount that would have brought back memories of the 2000 election.

After Boris's barnstormer on Letterman's Late Show in June, the Prime Minister David Cameron had a hard act to follow when he appeared on the same talk show last night.

'I wanted to be an Olympian'