Females are less physically active at both ends of life than their male counterparts, two studies suggest.

Men of higher intelligence tend to produce better quality sperm, UK research suggests.

When a movie dramatises the lives and times of an easy on the eye bunch such as Germany's Baader Meinhof gang, it does tend to glamorise the murder and kidnapping they got up to, says Clive James.

Families fall into six categories in their attitude to food - and that affects their child's health, the government says.

It's now as easy to open a lap dancing club as it is a coffee shop, in large parts of Britain. But there are growing objections among residents and women's rights campaigners.

Police struggle to close lap dancing clubs because as their customers are well-behaved, a vice squad chief tells MPs.

A study has confirmed what many gym users already knew - listening to music can boost your capacity for exercise.

An off-duty nurse tends to a hospital security guard she finds collapsed in the street.

Whenever ice cream sales rise, so do shark attacks. As more economists are recruited to the Treasury, inflation rises. In his fifth lesson of a weekly series, author Michael Blastland gives some hints about reading causation into "correlated" facts.

When it comes to choosing a husband, women tend to pick men who resemble their dad, a study shows.

The UK's towns and cities are designed primarily for men, not women, says a study. So what's the difference?

The BBC's Jonathan Head visits a school in Thailand which has provided transsexual pupils with their own toilet.

Sheep used by a church to tend the grass around graves have led relatives to accuse it of disrespect.

The best state school in England is at the same time a borderline underachiever, according to the government. This inconsistency leaves parents confused about which figures to believe, says Michael Blastland.

Sports psychologist Andy Barton tells BBC Sport why a player's state of mind is crucial to success

A commute depicted in plants and a George Harrison memorial are among the biographical gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show. But even a potted plant on the sill says something about the person who tends it.

People quit smoking in groups, not on their own, according to a study by U.S health researchers.

Whether it's Heather Mills or Kerry Katona, the celebrities that ordinary people vilify tend to be women. Why?

German techno group Scooter caused a shock by knocking Madonna's album off the top of the UK chart.

A woman discovers a World War I medal in her rhubarb patch while tending her garden.