Lady Gaga stops by Google The interview, conducted by Google’s Marissa Mayer, was also a chance to showcase Google Moderator, a Google product that allows users to submit and vote on questions to submit for interview events. It was also us…

Japanese pop group Kishidan's 'Nazi' outfits force Sony to apologise Cooper said he was "fully aware that many young Japanese are woefully uneducated" about the crimes against humanity committed by Nazi Germany and Japan during the second …

Paris fashion week turns to Lady Gaga – and a quiet Belgian The opening day was one of stark contrasts and featured a classic sartorial duel: wearable clothes versus theatrical tactics. It started with the Belgian designer Dries Van Noten …

Life on Mars? European Space Agency crewmen simulate landing in sandpit The exercise was the highlight and halfway point of the Mars500 project, which aims to find out how humans would cope with the psychological ordeal of a real trip to M…

David Cameron to rescue 'big society' with extra cash David Cameron is launching a frantic bid to rescue his much-criticised plan for a "big society" as he promises to back the project with public money and new initiatives to help it survi…

Sumo wrestling hit by match-fixing scandal The ancient sport of sumo wrestling was today bracing itself for a fresh assault on its reputation, after police said they had found evidence of match-fixing on several wrestlers' mobile phones.Ja…

Universities must cut private schools intake, says Simon Hughes Universities should drastically limit their intake of privately educated pupils if they want to charge undergraduates up to £9,000 a year, says the government's adviser on acc…

World food prices enter 'danger territory' to reach record high Soaring prices of sugar, grain and oilseed drove world food prices to a record in December, surpassing the levels of 2008 when the cost of food sparked riots around the world,…

Edmund de Waal leads Costa book awards finalists A book that uses 264 delicate Japanese carvings to tell the extraordinary story of a family living through tumultous events in Paris and Vienna was tonight named winner of one of the UK's mo…