A doctor who has just months to live after being diagnosed with a terminal illness says it's time for euthanasia to be legalised.

Approved pot growers in New Mexico are struggling to keep up with demand from the 2000 registered medical marijuana patients.

Childless or empty-nest couples have replaced iconic families of Mum, Dad and the kids as New Zealand's most common kind of household.

NZ researchers have established that vitamin C can help to block the growth of cancer cells.

Forget the Large Hadron Collider, Cern's scientists have their hearts set on a new, $9.48 billion, 31km Linear Collider.

An NZ company has developed a way of generating electricity from passing cars.

A local company has launched the Rex exoskeleton, a robotic device which enables wheelchair-bound people to walk.

Polar bears in the Hudson Bay area of Canada are likely to die out in the next three decades.

Despite bold claims, the development of mass-produced useful, commercial robots hasn't much moved beyond the glorified nut tighteners at car factories.

The Confucius Institute wants to get 50,000 people learning Mandarin by next year.

Guns could be made more accessible to police amid concerns about the growing number of officers being "ambushed".

Britain's National Health Service is to be slimmed down, smartened up and democratised.

Teaching is a privilege, but proposed changes require careful consideration, says an education lecturer.

Food prices have fallen by 2pc in the past year, says Statistics NZ, the biggest annual fall since 1957.

Leading doctors in Britain will today demand tough government action to curb the nation's addiction to unhealthy food.

The tiny island nation of Tuvalu is struggling with a raft of issues, including rising sea levels and frequent storm surges.

The risk of receiving a dreaded Facebook friend request from your parents or even grandparents is on the increase.

The British public is being urged to suggest their own spending cuts as the Government steps up its search for billions of pounds of savings.

More than 80 per cent of New Zealanders believe we are increasingly adopting a more casual approach to our workplace attire.

In a bid to combat rampant obesity levels, law-makers in the US city of Baldwin Park have imposed a moratorium on new fast-food outlets.

New ETS charges and images of the Gulf of Mexico oil rig catastrophe are giving impetus to the fledgling bio-fuels sector.