The Empire strikes back: The royals triumphantly show it's the sneerers who are out of date. By Robert Hardman Published: 23:22 GMT, 9 March 2012 | Updated: 11:23 GMT, 11 March 2012 On a South American stage, Britain’s grand old man of gloom attacks his mother country for insisting on hanging on to the Falkland Islands.
‘We know the islands belong to you,’ says Morrissey, frontman for Eighties misery-guts group The Smiths. With the rest of his latest band proudly sporting ‘We Hate William And Kate’ T-shirts, Morrissey tells the 15,000-strong Argentinian audience: ‘The government never listen to the people, to their pain.’ Useful idiots: Singer Morrissey with his bandmates in their anti-royal T-shirts after their performance in Buenos Aires, Argentina Oddly, the singing raincloud neglects to mention the democratic wishes of 3,000 Falkland Islanders, presumably because they are just fascist land thieves or, perhaps, stooges implanted by the evil Thatcher regime.
Ronacollina acula: Oldest animal with a skeleton discovered. Coronacollina acula may also help us recognise life elsewhere in the universe By Ted Thornhill Published: 09:55 GMT, 9 March 2012 | Updated: 12:23 GMT, 9 March 2012 At between 550 and 560 million years old, an animal discovered in South Australia recently is the oldest with a skeleton ever found.
Images of solar flares and northern lights taken during solar storms. By Rob Waugh Published: 09:22 GMT, 9 March 2012 | Updated: 07:46 GMT, 12 March 2012 This week there have been huge solar storms on the sun - and Nasa has been snapping away with its high-tech cameras, producing some incredible photographs.
They capture the sun in all its violent glory, with its surface a maelstrom of activity. Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory is able to differentiate between different temperature levels on the sun, so it's able to take amazing kaleidoscopic pictures. Scroll down for solar flare video Rising Sun: This image combines three images with different, but very similar, temperatures Swirling: The dark areas - called coronal holes - are places where very little radiation is emitted, yet are the main source of solar wind particles. Guinness World Record secured by green-fingered David Thomas for the heaviest ever parsnip. By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 20:48 GMT, 8 March 2012 | Updated: 09:51 GMT, 9 March 2012 Shiver me tubers!
This giant parsnip bears more than a passing resemblance to the tyrannical Davy Jones of Pirates of the Caribbean fame. Just like the captain of the Flying Dutchman, played by Bill Nighy, the veg sports tentacle-like features sprouting out of its bulbous body. Extreme close-up: Scientists capture first image of two atoms INSIDE a molecule (but we'll just have to take their word for it) By Rob Waugh Published: 18:51 GMT, 8 March 2012 | Updated: 12:28 GMT, 9 March 2012 A new photograph shows two atoms vibrating together inside a molecule - a first for science.
Researchers used a mind-boggling technique where they turned an electron into a 'flash bulb' to capture the image. The precise control required to set off the 'flash' has offered hope that scientists may one day be able to control chemicals at the atomic scale. Principal investigator Louis DiMauro of Ohio State University said that the feat marks a first step toward not only observing chemical reactions, but also controlling them on an atomic scale The team used ultrafast laser pulses to knock one electron out of its natural orbit in a molecule. New clock is 100 times more accurate than any on Earth - it loses less than a second every 14 BILLION years. By Rob Waugh Published: 13:36 GMT, 9 March 2012 | Updated: 13:36 GMT, 9 March 2012 A proposed new clock will be the most accurate ever created by mankind - losing or gaining less than 1/20th of a second every 14 billion years A proposed new clock will be the most accurate ever created by mankind - losing or gaining less than 1/20th of a second every 14 billion years.
The universe itself is around 14 billion years old - so had we been armed with one of these since the moment of the Big Bang, we would still be on time for work. It's 100 times more accurate even than the best atomic clocks today, which are used to 'set' the time for mobile phone networks and GPS systems around the world. Glossy plumage of Microraptor shows feathers evolved for courtship. By Ted Thornhill Published: 11:33 GMT, 9 March 2012 | Updated: 13:04 GMT, 9 March 2012 The mystery of whether feathers evolved to aid flight or attract mates has been solved by researchers studying the flashy plumage of a meat-eating dino-bird.
Scientists from the American Museum of Natural History's Division of Paleontology revealed the colour and detailed feather pattern of Microraptor - a pigeon-sized, four-winged dinosaur that lived about 130 million years ago. It’s the earliest record of iridescent feather colour and the researchers believe their finding shows that the Microraptor's plumage was used as a way of demonstrating sexual prowess. Winging it: The Microraptor had flashy feathers that researchers believe were purely ornamental. MPs and their staff make 10,000 changes to Wikipedia pages in bid to hide embarrassing information. Bureau of Investigative Journalism finds 10,000 edits on Wikipedia are directly traceable to within the Houses of ParliamentPages for one in six MPs were edited from within the HousesEdits included removing unflattering facts, adding praise, or slandering political enemies ... and even frivolous edits about Pringles and Harry Potter.
Just like the chocolate bar, the Milky Way galaxy is 'full of bubbles', say scientists. By Rob Waugh Published: 16:39 GMT, 8 March 2012 | Updated: 17:58 GMT, 9 March 2012 Just like the fluffy nougat in the chocolate bar, the Milky Way galaxy is full of bubbles, a new survey by 'citizen scientists' has found.
More than 35,000 astronomy fans sifted through data from the Spitzer space telescope, and found bubbles in space - blown out by young, hot stars into the gas and dust around them. Volunteers for the project are shown a small section of Spitzer¿s huge infrared Milky Way image (left), which they then scan for cosmic bubbles. Using a sophisticated drawing tool, the volunteers trace the shape and thickness of the bubbles. Charles Dickens film from 111-years ago found after going missing for half a century.
Film made in 1901, 31 years after Dickens' deathThought to have been inspired by Dickens' novel Bleak House By Rachel Rickard Straus.
Vatican classed as being as likely to be involved in money laundering as Yemen, Algeria and North Korea. By Nick Pisa Updated: 12:28 GMT, 9 March 2012 Drug enforcement chiefs have for the first time identified the Vatican as a possible centre for money laundering from criminal activity. The report by the American State Department's International Narcotics Control Strategy lists the Holy See as one of 68 countries including Yemen, Algeria and North Korea, describing it as a 'country of concern' for money laundering or other financial crimes. Officials said they had placed the Vatican on its watch list because of the 'huge amount of cash' that flows into the tiny city state and also because it was still unclear how effective anti money laundering legislation introduced last year by Pope Benedict XVI had been.
Crowds gather in St Peter's Square in Vatican City which has been placed on a list of countries that could be involved in money laundering Pope Benedict XVI introduced anti-money laundering legislation last year, but it is not yet known how effective that has been. Very cold case: 2,000-year-old murder is solved as CT scan reveals Iron Age man was bludgeoned, strangled, then beheaded in a human sacrifice.
Google's 'unbreakable' Chrome browser falls prey to TWO hacks - including one that takes over a PC just from visiting a website. By Rob Waugh Published: 11:32 GMT, 9 March 2012 | Updated: 12:15 GMT, 9 March 2012 Google's 'unbreakable' Chrome browser has fallen prey to computer hackers. The browser - the world's second most-popular - was hacked in five minutes at a hacking conference in Vancouver by French security researchers. Another researcher then showed off a second hack that could take over a Windows machine using an infected website - and earned a $60,000 'bounty' from Google for the hack.
iPad 3 features: New Apple tablet, with HD screen and '4G' connection, too smart for UK? UK consumers to miss out on functions such as instant-playing web videoDevice ships with aerial UK users cannot useMuch-hyped '4G' network will only be available at end of 2012 at best Fears iPad may not even work with UK network AFTER launchNew data-hungry device may hit consumers with 'bill shock', tech sites warn By Rob Waugh Updated: 00:33 GMT, 9 March 2012 British iPad fans could be missing out on one of the best features of Apple's new model - a super-fast 4G phone connection - but will end up paying for the privilege anyway. Apple made much of the new device's 4G network connection at the device's launch last night, showing off web videos which played near-instantly over the LTE connection.
But British users won't be able to enjoy the function: 4G networks have yet to roll out in the UK, with even optimistic projections putting the launch at the end of the year, by which time, Apple will no doubt be on the verge of launching another iPad. FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF NEW iPAD. New Xbox is 'due out next year' - and the hi-tech machine will no longer have a disc drive. By Rob Waugh Published: 10:06 GMT, 9 March 2012 | Updated: 10:06 GMT, 9 March 2012 Microsoft's Xbox 360: Leaks hint that the successor to the machine will be released in 2013 - and will no longer have a DVD drive The follow-up to the Xbox 360 is due out next year - and the machine will no longer have a disc drive, according to a source within Microsoft.
Instead, games will download to the hi-tech new console - or gamers can carry them on a memory card. No exact release date has been revealed, but the leak lends weight to the rumour that Microsoft might show off the new Xbox at the games industry conference E3 in Los Angeles in May. With a $5m price-tag and 1,292 diamonds, is this the world's most expensive watch? Pompeii's Stabian Baths reopens after ¿1m renovation. One-inch Imperial jade seal set to sell for £1MILLION (and its owner had no idea what it was!) Avatar director James Cameron prepares for 7-mile solo dive into Pacific Ocean's Mariana trench. Aims to be first human to visit bottom since January 1960Solo submersible so cramped he can't move his armsFirst of several competing missions to deepest point on Earth.
Cancer scare forces Coca-Cola to tweak its recipe to avoid having a warning on their labels. Both firms to alter the way caramel colour is producedChanges will take place in the U.SBut not in UK as the drinks meet European safety rules. Gigantic clusters of deep-sea tubeworms found near Costa Rica. Bees have personalities too, say scientists. Mystery: U.S X-37B space plane has been in orbit for over a year. The X-37B has been circling the Earth at 17,000mph and was due to land in California in December. Why 'tax' makes you unhappy: Scientists find that words on the left hand side of a QWERTY keyboard make people sad. Optical illusions from inside the world's tallest buildings. By Daily Mail Reporter. Joseph Kony's child soldiers: Invisible Children video captures the hearts of millions. Deep sea grave of the Titanic: Extraordinary sonar images show full map of shipwreck on ocean floor for first time.
Letter claims Titanic's captain Edward Smith was drunk on the night ship sank. Nurse, the screens! Doctors to build 3D computer avatars of living patients to 'test' treatments before prescribing. Passing electric current through the brain 'lifts half of patients from depression' Arthritis sufferers '40 per cent more likely to develop fatal heart problems' Sorry girls, but the colour pink doesn't exist and is just a pigment of our imagination.
Exiled Iranian women pose nude in video protest against sexual oppression on International Women's Day.