It has 5 megapixel resolution, 2.8x optical zoom, and 7x digital zoom. Plus Tetris and three other games.

Babies that have yet to take their first step can use the toilet, if their parents are advocates of a group called Diaper Free Baby. Of course, they need a helping hand to sit still, but some are so successful they can be expected to stay dry through the night.

I edged past the vendor handing out sample pieces of fruit. Behind me as I bought some plums, a little girl was getting whiny. Mom was patient.

Mom: What is it, dear.
Girl: Oooh, it hurts, Mommy.
Mom: What hurts, dear.
Girl: Look, I can’t eat it, it hurts!
Mom: Honey, you’re not supposed to eat that.
Girl: I’m not?
Mom: That’s a toothpick. You were just supposed to eat the fruit off the end.

After studying aerial photographs of the Xanadu (Shangdu) site, archaeologists say they have a better idea of key parts of the capital built by Kublai Khan. Marco Polo reported seeing opulent marble palaces there.

Sadly there is little left of the ‘pleasure dome’ within ‘twice five miles of fertile ground’.

Military hospitals are seeing this rare infection as injured soldiers return from Iraq and Afghanistan. Non-military patients are acquiring it within the hospitals. It is highly resistant to antibiotics.

The patient was told it could be an allergy, and treated her with antibiotics. Blood tests came back normal. She began having shortness of breath.

Worried, she tried Googling, and came up with a possibility that the doctors had dismissed earlier.

If you should find yourself in a lucid nocturnal eating mode (if there is such a thing), it wouldn’t hurt to eat a bowl of beans, preferably cooked. Where’s the fun if only part of your brain is aware that you’re eating candy bars at 3:00 a.m? May as well eat the stuff that will keep you healthier.

And if there’s tofu in the fridge, you’ll only be dimly aware that you’re tucking into some.

Sound-asleep sufferers rise in the night, head for the kitchen, and chow down on food, usually high fat items like chocolate, peanut butter, but sometimes odd things like raw bacon. Some are on diets during the day, and eat forbidden foods only while sleeping.

They have little memory of their night-time wanderings, and protest when confronted with candy wrappers or food stains on their clothing or faces.

Not the jolly guy, but a somewhat scarier giant who holds Badger’s little brother until Badger can bring back some of Glooscap’s magic food (which never grows less, no matter how much is eaten).

The British Veterinary Association feels that badgers play a large role in the spread of bovine TB, and that their numbers should be lowered.

Conservationists say there is not enough evidence to do so.

Badgers probably agree with the conservationists.