Inspired by a surge in interest in taxidermy, Genevieve Roberts learns to stuff a mouse called Derek... to wear as a brooch

The rabbit who just runs and runs and runs

Benjamin Mee, the inspiration behind the new Matt Damon film, recalls a mad week of tigers and premieres

A man has turned over 94 hamsters to a local animal shelter, telling officials he was running out of room in his apartment.

Reports of a big cat going wild near Stroud only scratch the surface. Tom Peck and Joshua Carroll investigate

Laughter is the most obvious outward sign of happiness. But is it better for our health than we ever imagined?

Sketch: Odd sort of way for Kelvin to address the Inquiry. Didn't he say that either? Lob it in, it'll be all right

A new treatment could prevent delayed asthma attacks, which can occur several hours after exposure to allergens, a study showed today.

When Britons had the ride of their lives

The wretched of the earth high above turquoise blue seas; take a face mask with you before you clamber up the Jabal al-Zbeleh – the 'Mountain of Rubbish' – and just imagine the beauty of the beach that still exists six storeys of muck below you. These days, you might need the face mask when you observe Lebanon's politics, but the moment you see the middle-aged Palestinians of this place, filthy and gaunt, their shirts and trousers pasted with the detritus of Lebanon, you can only feel compassion. They work high atop this vile garbage heap, to ferret out old plastic and leather and metal and still-ripe tomatoes amid flies and rats and wild dogs and rotten food and used hospital syringes and torn-open sacks of household rubbish and methane gas.

Oh, the cruelty of politics. Silly Vince could have been hero Vince, noble Vince, he could have been 800lb-gorilla Vince with virgins strewing themselves in his path. If only he hadn't told the little cutie he was "declaring war on Rupert Murdoch". If only she hadn't been working for a national newspaper. If only he hadn't been in charge of a careful process, if only his bosses hadn't been up to the apricots in Rupert Murdoch.