A dog in sunglasses, having found some sunshine from somewhere.

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How do you read? With your eyes all over the show, it turns out.

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Mummified Inca maiden wows crowds

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Ding ding, round one! Dingo vs. thylacine.

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Rabies "could be eradicated in a decade" and we owe it to dogs to try.

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UK residents are asked to submit their favourite words online.

('Somnolent', incidentally.)

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One in four women in Wales is going to suffer domestic abuse at some point. Domestic violence bad. Especially during rugby, apparently; not surprising, I suppose.

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Scots smoke ban has 'improved health'. Cool.

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Go away, you silly anachronism.

You can almost dismiss the whole thing as harmless and funny until you realise how many people take as inerrant the word of someone who can believe this sort of thing without batting an eyelid. He makes the White Queen seem sane.

It's a nice hat, though.

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Super-rich 'should pay more tax'. Oh, this'll be popular.

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Starch "may explain our success on the planet". It also explains a lot of huge tums.

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Solar plane breaks unmanned flight record

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Faith schools out NOW. No cults indoctrinating other people's children.

And stop letting them creep into law enforcement! We know what happens when religion gets the opportunity to control people's behaviour. Don't we? Let's see. Is it: (a) take a step back and say "well, actually, free will, no compulsion in religion and all that, it would be inappropriate for us to interfere and actually we don't have an opinion on some of those issues"; (b) mutaween?

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Stop appeasing these people by letting them think they're important. Someone needs to make a stand against this ridiculous willy-waving, and unfortunately I don't think anyone will dare.

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Oh goody, more FASCINATING Shakespeare denial.

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Python pilgrims congregate at Castle Anthrax.

(Got "Welcome to the gu-lag for lu-na-tics" stuck in my head now.)

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Moral panic claim on drink binges

Ah, Gin Lane, such fun. However, prohibitionists ought to note that Hogarth was perfectly happy for us all to drink beer.

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Two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be gone by the middle of the century. Knut and Talini are our future, it seems.

This is Talini in January, recovering after root canal treatment. (Random Google, but by complete coincidence I'm going to the dentist tomorrow to be fitted in for the same.)

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Dental students 'will shun NHS'

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And finally, sheep invade Madrid.