Dutch artist, Christien Meindertsma, uses art (and craft) to expose the hidden processes and connections of our modern life. One of her award-winning projects, now housed by New York's Museum of Modern Art, was to document the astounding array of products that different parts of a pig, named 05049, could support. 

Several new high-​tech bottle-​scanning technologies that will allow the lifting of the liquids ban at airports are currently being trialled in several countries. The UK-based Cobalt Light Systems’ explosives detector has just passed all its European civil aviation security tests.

A diabetic man with a penchant for sugary drinks who lost his legs to amputation is the latest posterboy in New York's health department's hard-hitting anti-obesity campaign.

As retailers gear up to welcome hordes of holiday shoppers aroung the world, here's a little something they might keep in mind if they're in America: one in every 11 people who walk through the door are likely to walk out with at least one item he or she didn't pay for. The number one shoplifted item this year, according to a top ten list of the most shoplifted goods published by AdWeek, is...

A great foodie story for the tabloids... British cooking celebrity, Nigella Lawson, on the latest cover of the free UK magazine Stylist, has become a human toffee apple, professing her love of salted caramel by pouring the sugary sauce over her head and heavily made-up face. She denies that this haunting image is by any means erotic in nature.

Nando's latest edgy satirical TV ad, "last dictator standing", that's currently running in South Africa will be cancelled, the Nando's restaurant chain has said - in reaction to outrage over the ad in Zimbabwe from militant Mugabe supporters.