Sir Mo Farah lives the dream as he trains with Arsenal

Arsenal superfan Sir Mo Farah got to live the dream when he trained with the Gunners squad on Thursday.
The new knight, honoured in the New Year"s list, got involved in some light work at Arsenal"s London Colney training ground before posing for pictures with his heroes.
Farah, a four-time Olympic gold medal..

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Political lives (Part 3)

Image copyright Getty Images This year saw the loss of two heavyweights from the Thatcher era, Cecil Parkinson and Jim Prior, who had contrasting relationships with the prime minister. But they weren"t the only former MPs to pass away in 2015. Read part one and part two.
Cecil Parkinson: 1 September 1932 – 26 January 2016 Image copyright PA One of Margaret Thatcher"s closest confidantes throughout the 1980s, Cecil Parkinson was one of the nearly men of British politics.
Tipped as a possible successor to the prime minister, the married father of three resigned from the cabinet during the Conservative conference in October 1983 after it emerged that his secretary Sarah Keays was carrying his child – a daughter, Flora, who was born in 1984.
Although he returned to government four years later and remained an influential figure in Tory circles, his chance of attaining the highest offices had gone and he left the Commons at the 1992 election – however he later took a seat in the H..

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Political lives (Part 2)

Image copyright Getty Images This year saw the loss of a politician who pulled off one of the biggest upsets in by-election history, a key figure in the Northern Ireland peace process and a Tory MP born during World War One. But they weren"t the only former MPs to pass away in 2015. Read part one here.
Arthur Latham, 14 August 1930 – 3 December 2016Labour"s Arthur Latham was the MP for Paddington North, and then Paddington, from 1969 to 1979.
He entered Parliament in a by-election caused by the death of MP Ben Parkin.
His first parliamentary question was on the policing of cricket grounds, ahead of the planned tour of the UK by the South African team of 1970.
Among the subjects he focused on in Parliament were animal rights (on one occasion, complaining about the practice of fitting blinkers to pheasants) and sex and race discrimination.
Mr Latham also campaigned for tenants" rights, a particular issue in his part of London, in which slum landlords operated.
In 1972, he..

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Mothers of kids with severe birth defects may have shorter lives

A mother raising a child with a major birth defect may face a higher risk of dying early compared with a mother whose child doesn"t have a birth defect, Danish research suggests.
But, the researchers added, the risk of early death was "marginal."
The finding is based on a review...
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