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Rupert Isaacson believes riding has transformed his autistic son. Now he wants others to benefit from his experience.

Add to My Stories This is the first picture of seven-week-old conjoined twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf. The boys, who were born at London University College Hospital, are feeding well and gaining weight ahead of surgery to try to separate them later this year. Parents Angie and Azzedine, who describe their sons as ‘little fighters’, took them home from hospital for the first time last night.

I took my mother to church for the local carol service this Christmas. I studied the teachings of Christ for five years back in the 90′s, and as I sat there reflecting on them an old habit came over me.

Do you know who Roger Bannister was? He was the first person to break the four-minute mile. Before him, no one thought it was possible, scientists claimed that the heart would literally explode at that pace and therefore was an irrefutable impossibility.

It’s hard to label anything a perfect food. But when it comes to culinary and nutritional perfection, there’s one food that gets awfully close: an amazing little grain from South America called quinoa . Most Americans have no idea what quinoa is, let alone how to pronounce it (keen-wah)

It is nine days after the quake, and last night three gaunt Haitian medical students, their school destroyed, came up to me in the dark as I walked past the nursing school with 150 nurses still buried in the rubble, the smell of rotting flesh floating in the hot, heavy evening air. They have helped out for the last week at the hospital but had no food to eat and only a little water to drink. Their homes were destroyed and most of their families were dead.

Add to My Stories Scientists at Exeter University claimed this week that non-stick frying pans could be bad for your health. A chemical used for their heat-resistant and stain-repelling properties was linked in research to a higher-than-normal incidence of thyroid disease.