Penguins on a treadmill: study shows fat ones fall over more often than slim ones
Ten male king penguins who were in courtship and who weighed more than 12kg were captured near the shoreline at the edge of a colony. The penguins, which are serial monogamists, have the longest breeding cycle of all the penguin species – 14 to 16 months – and produce just one chick per cycle. Weight gain is essential in courtship so that the penguins have enough fat reserve to survive their fast
Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?
Ai Aoyama is a sex and relationship counsellor who works out of her narrow three-storey home on a Tokyo back street. Her first name means "love" in Japanese, and is a keepsake from her earlier days as a professional dominatrix. Back then, about 15 years ago, she was Queen Ai, or Queen Love, and she did "all the usual things" like tying people up and dripping hot wax on their nipples. Her work toda
England riots: suspects mapped and poverty mapped
What part did poverty play in the riots that spread across England? We have mapped suspects' addresses with poverty indicators. See what it shows by moving and zooming around the map - which loads centred on Manchester but covers the whole of England Mapped using Google Fusion tables • England riots: was poverty a factor? • The map is coloured by the Indices of Multiple Deprivation, from blue (ric
Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'
1Q84, Haruki Murakami's new novel, is 1,000 pages long and is published in three volumes. It took the author three years to write and it is possible, on an 11-hour flight from New York to Honolulu, to get through about half of it. Murakami looks crestfallen on receipt of this news – the ratio of writing to reading time is never very encouraging for a writer – and yet if anything tests a novel's po
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Caracas: Venezuela's most violent city. Sean Smith reports from a hospital in the Venezuelan capital Warning: Contains distressing images guardian.co.uk It started one humid afternoon when a seven-year-old boy flicked something out of a schoolbus window at a teenager on García de Sena street. Some say it was a piece of popcorn, others a rolled up piece of paper. Whatever it was, the older boy took
Osama bin Laden mission agreed in secret 10 years ago by US and Pakistan
After this story was published, the All Pakistan Muslim League issued a statement denying that there is any truth in the allegation that an agreement had been struck between then military leader of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf, and President George Bush, to let American forces conduct operations against bin Laden inside Pakistan. The US and Pakistan struck a secret deal almost a decade ago p
638 ways to kill Castro
The CIA's outlandish plots to bump off the Cuban dictator would put 007 to shame ... poison pills, toxic cigars and exploding molluscs. Once he even offered to shoot himself, reports Duncan Campbell For nearly half a century, the CIA and Cuban exiles have been trying to devise ways to assassinate Fidel Castro, who is currently laid low in Cuba following an operation for intestinal bleeding. None o
World Cup 2010: Denmark v Japan - as it happened | Simon Burnton | Football | guardian.co.uk
Japanese fans watching outside the Danish embassy in Tokyo (cruel, really) react to their second goal. Photograph: Itsuo Inouye/AP Japanese fans watching outside the Danish embassy in Tokyo (cruel, really) react to their second goal. Photograph: Itsuo Inouye/AP So, in brief: Denmark must win. Japan can draw. In a bit more depth: Denmark were disappointing against Holland, and then poor again again
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