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4 November 2010 Last updated at 10:19 ET Share this page Facebook Share Email Print Sir Sean Connery nude found among late artist's works The painting was completed before Sir Sean Connery made his breakthrough as an actor Continue reading the main story Related stories Lost Connery footage found in US Sean Connery period drama found A nude painting of Sir Sean Connery has been discovered in a Scottish Borders artist's unseen collection. It was painted in 1951 when the James Bond star was working as an unknown nude model for Edinburgh students. The oil on canvas - thought to be worth thousands of pounds - was discovered by relatives of artist Rab Webster, who died last month aged 83. He was a student at Edinburgh College of Art when Sir Sean posed for students shortly before his acting breakthrough. The colle...

4 November 2010 Last updated at 15:16 ET Share this page Facebook Share Email Print Cost of aircraft carrier contracts revealed The future of the carriers contract had been under review by the UK government Continue reading the main story Related stories Brown urges Rosyth carrier work Carriers spared in defence cuts Brown warning over carrier cuts The Treasury has published a letter which confirms that cancelling one of two aircraft carriers would have cost hundreds of millions of pounds more than building both ships. It would also have led to the closure of the last two shipyards on the Clyde with thousands of job losses. The letter, from BAE Systems to David Cameron, was written during negotiations over the defence review. Both carriers will cost £5.2bn but just one would have cost almost £5.5bn. The...

4 November 2010 Last updated at 14:03 ET Share this page Facebook Share Email Print Cell find may aid cancer vaccines Recruiting healthy cells could aid immunotherapy Continue reading the main story Related stories Hopes for breast cancer vaccine Prostate cancer vaccine approved Cancer cell flaws may hit studies A type of normal cell often found in cancerous growths may be the reason for the failure of anti-cancer vaccines. Stromal cells may act to protect tumours from the body's immune system, a study in the journal Science reports. Cambridge University scientists eliminated some of these cells in mice, and shrank their lung tumours. Cancer Research UK said the study offered "exciting clues" to how cancer recruited healthy cells, and how to prevent that happening. Tumours are not just mad...

4 November 2010 Last updated at 14:04 ET Share this page Facebook Share Email Print Clue to how some 'control' their HIV without medication By Caroline Parkinson Health reporter, BBC News HIV infects key cells in the body’s defence which co-ordinate the response to infection Continue reading the main story Related stories New hope for HIV vaccine efforts HIV vaccine 'reduces infection' Tiny changes to an "alarm" protein which responds to infections may explain why some with HIV can control their condition without drugs. Around one in 300 people with HIV are "controllers", and scientists want to replicate how their bodies behave. Writing in Science, US researchers say differences in five amino acids in a protein called HLA-B a...

4 November 2010 Last updated at 09:04 ET Share this page Facebook Share Email Print The world's longest running carbon dioxide experiment By Jane O'Brien BBC News, Washington The experiment tracks changes in wetlands Continue reading the main story Biodiversity: The threat to nature The cost of damaging Planet Earth Economic benefits of preserving nature Back from the dead Nature talks end with 'weak' deal A small patch of wetland on ...

4 November 2010 Last updated at 10:06 ET Share this page Facebook Share Email Print Watching The Clock, minute by minute The time on screen matches real-life time where the movie is playing The Clock, an extraordinary new film showing at the White Cube gallery in London, consists of thousands of old movie clips in which a clock features or where someone refers to the time, as the BBC's art correspondent Vincent Dowd reports. Going to The Clock with a movie buff could get very aggravating very quickly if they tried to name every clip. Continue reading the main story “ Start Quote Everybody relates to it because we're all anxious about time going by” End Quote Christian Marclay Director of The Clock The director, Christian Marclay, says there are at least 3,000 movies clipped in it. But there is no exact listing and the count may be clo...

4 November 2010 Last updated at 08:16 ET Share this page Facebook Share Email Print Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's studio 'to be demolished' Ai Weiwei is based in Beijing but had built a new, second studio in Shanghai Continue reading the main story Related stories 100 million hand-painted seeds One of China's most outspoken artists, Ai Weiwei, has said he will throw a party to mark the forced demolition of his new Shanghai studio. Mr Ai, who helped create the Olympic Bird's Nest stadium in Bejing, was initially invited to build the space in an emerging art district. But, according to reports, the $1.1m (£670,000) studio has now been declared illegal and will shortly be demolished. On Twitter, Mr Ai said he would offer river crabs at a final event. "The 7th of November, 'River Crab Fest' at Ai Weiwei...

4 November 2010 Last updated at 02:59 ET Share this page Facebook Share Email Print Welsh minister says Wales wants 'big society' The prime minister unveiled his 'Big Society' policy earlier this year Continue reading the main story Related stories Paving the way for volunteering Your country needs you - Cameron Church warns on portrayal of poor There is "huge enthusiasm" in Wales for the "big society" agenda, says a UK government minister in Wales. Wales Office minister David Jones is meeting the assembly government's Social Justice Minister Carl Sargeant to discuss how it can be taken forward. David Cameron launched his flagship plan to empower communities and foster a culture of volunteering in June. Mr Sargeant said he was sceptical about transferring service...

4 November 2010 Last updated at 07:19 ET Share this page Facebook Share Email Print Arts Council England to introduce funding applications The Royal Ballet is among the organisations supported by Arts Council England Continue reading the main story Related stories Arts Council's budget cut by 30% Arts funding around the world The way the arts are financed in England is to be transformed with the introduction of an applications system from the main public funding body. Arts Council England, which distributes cash to about 850 groups, wants to make recipients more accountable and open up the process to new organisations. More than 100 organisations are likely to lose their funding. The council's current annual grant of £449m is dropping to £349m by 2014 as a result of the Spending Review. Arts funding bodies in...

4 November 2010 Last updated at 18:44 ET Share this page Facebook Share Email Print Vatican warns of 'wayward' Opus Angelorum sect The Vatican said some members were trying to form an "authentic Opus Angelorum" The Vatican has warned Catholic bishops around the world to monitor carefully a secretive traditionalist sect which prays to angels to combat demons. Opus Angelorum, which means "the work of angels" in Latin, was founded by an Austrian housewife who died in 1978. She claimed to have identified the angels and demons who were battling for the control of human beings. The Church said some members of the sect were carrying out "activities that disturb the ecclesiastical community". 'Possessed' The BBC's David Willey in Rome says Opus Angelorum first attracted the attention of the Vatican 30 years ago, after t...

A happy marriage could bring health benefits If you are a man, marriage can cut your risk of stroke, unless you are in an unhappy one, say researchers. A study of 10,000 Israelis found both bachelors and those in loveless marriages had a far higher risk of fatal stroke than happily married men. Experts said the work, presented at the American Stroke Association's International Conference, showed the power of loving relationships. But they said a healthy lifestyle was the best way to avoid a stroke. Marital satisfaction The study, carried out by Uri Goldbourt from Tel Aviv University, analysed questionnaires filled out in the early 1960s by male civil servants and municipal employees. The participants, who had an average age of 49, were asked to rate the success of their marriage. ...

4 November 2010 Last updated at 21:38 ET Share this page Facebook Share Email Print Vitamin E linked to increased risk of some strokes Maintaining a healthy lifestyle has a bigger effect on stroke risk than taking vitamin E Continue reading the main story Related stories Drug 'could reduce stroke damage' Lansley: 'My stroke could have paralysed me' 'Happy marriage cuts strokes' Taking vitamin E could slightly increase the risk of a particular type of stroke, a study says. The British Medical Journal study found that for every 1,250 people there is the chance of one extra haemorrhagic stroke - bleeding in the brain. Researchers from France, Germany and the US studied nine previous trials and nearly 119,000 people. But the level at which vitamin E becomes harmful is still unknown,...

A shocking idea or a spark of genius? Scientists in Oxford say applying an electrical current across the brain may be able to enhance your mathematical abilities. The amount of electricity is tiny - one thousandth of an amp. The electrodes are placed at the back of the head over the parietal lobe. This is an area of the brain which is a crucial in acquiring mathematical skills. Those with dyscalculia, sometimes called maths dyslexia, often have abnormal function of the parietal lobe. The researchers found that if the current flowed from the right of the brain to the left, then mathematical ability was enhanced. If it was reversed then it impeded learning, so that the volunteers scored no better in puzzles than a six year old. This was a very small study with just 15 volunteers who spent many hours solving mathematical puzzles. Much bigger and more detailed research is required before any robust claims can be made about the electrical stimul...

3 November 2010 Last updated at 20:19 ET Share this page Facebook Share Email Print Gravity suit mimics Earth's pull for astronauts By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News The suit is made of a fabric with carefully tailored stretchiness Continue reading the main story Related stories UK weighs microgravity interest My trip into near weightlessness Cosmonaut shaken back to health A stretchy suit that mimics the effects of the Earth's gravity has been developed in the US to spare astronauts the ill effects of long missions of weightlessness. Returning astronauts have lower bone density and muscle mass and can even suffer separation of their vertebrae. The suit is made of a fabric with carefully tailored stretchine...

3 November 2010 Last updated at 20:11 ET Share this page Facebook Share Email Print Invisibility cloak closer with flexible 'metamaterial' By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News Metamaterials work by interrupting and channelling the flow of light Continue reading the main story Related stories Invisibility cloak created in 3-D Science closes in on perfect lens 'Slow' light to speed up the net Scientists in the UK have demonstrated a flexible film that represents a big step toward the "invisibility cloak" made famous by Harry Potter. The film contains tiny structures that together form a "metamaterial", which can, among other tricks, manipulate light to render objects invisible. Flexible metama...

Or he’s not. I don’t care. He is still my son. And he is 5. And I am his mother. And if you have a problem with anything mentioned above, I don’t want to know you. I have gone back and forth on whether I wanted to post something more in-depth about my sweet boy and his choice of Halloween costume. Or more specifically, the reactions to it. I figure if I’m still irked by it a few days later, I may as well go ahead and post my thoughts. Here are the facts that lead up to my rant: My son is 5 and goes to a church preschool. He has loved Scooby Doo since developing the ability and attention span to sit still long enough to watch it. Halloween is a holiday and its main focus is wearing a costume. My son’s school had the kids dress up, do a little parade, and then change out of costumes for the rest of the party. Boo’s best friend is a little girl Boo has an older sister Boo spends most of his time with me. I am a woman. I am Boo’s mother, not you. So...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS More children die from unclean drinking water than from wars in the world, Doc Hendley says Hendley started nonprofit group Wine To Water to help fight water crisis He says 85,000 Afghan children lost their lives last year due to unclean drinking water Hendley: In Haiti, 1 million people are exposed to waterborne diseases RELATED TOPICS Water Resource Issues Asia Darfur Haiti Accidents and Disasters Editor's note: Doc Hendley, a 2009 CNN Top 10 Hero, is the founder and president of Wine To Water , a nonprofit group. (CNN) -- Humanity is facing a war right now with an enemy that appears to be winning. Although this war is not fought with guns, more people die from this enemy than all the guns and all the other wars in the world combined. What's really sad is that many of the casualties of this war are children under the age of 5. Who is this enemy, and what is this war that claims the life of a child every 15 seconds? The enem...

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