Black holes 'do not exist' Black holes are staples of science fiction and many think astronomers have observed them indirectly. But according to a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, these awesome breaches in space-time do not and indeed cannot exist.  Over the past

Breeding success for rare kakapo Down on a lonely island off the southern tip of New Zealand, three new kakapo have just been born.  These new chicks bring the total number of one of the world's rarest birds to 86.  The critically endangered kakapo - fat, green, musty-smelling