The millions of tourists coming to London for the Olympics will dramatically increase the risk that a flu pandemic in Britain might spread, according to new research to be published this week.

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Brendan Cowell, angry young man of Australian fringe theatre, co-writer of gritty TV drama The Slap, wants to talk Sex and the City.

A bus driver in southern China's Guangdong province has died of bird flu, a week after being admitted to hospital with a fever.

Alarm in China after bus driver dies, and, in nearby Hong Kong, 19,000 chickens have been slaughtered

A Chinese bus driver who tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus died in a city bordering Hong Kong today, health officials said.

Hong Kong health authorities are slaughtering more than 17,000 chickens at a market after a chicken carcass there was found to be infected with bird flu.

I had never conceived an interest in turkeys as birds, despite the fact that the original species, the wild turkey, is one the most notable members of the New World avifauna, and indeed was the very first plate in John James Audubon's legendary Birds of America. Why? Dunno really. Then I went to Mexico.

Blackburn's 21-year-old forward has stalled on a new contract and is now a target for Redknapp

A West Midlands entrepreneur is considering making a £300m hostile bid for Northern Foods which could scupper that group's plans to merge with Greencore.

Bernard Matthews has died at the age of 80 on Thanksgiving - often dubbed "Turkey Day" in the US.

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Sir: I do hope that Alasdair Mitchell (letter, 29 November) enjoys his turkey at Christmas. He may be interested to learn that these animals are bred to grow so quickly that they suffer from broken bones and heart disease.