Starting Sunday 15 Jan with the Golden Globes and ending at the 84th Oscars on 26 Feb, Hollywood is about to go red carpet crazy. Here are Charlie Lyne's top tips The Iron Lady Reasons it'll do well This highly subjective (and opportunely forgetful) look back at the career of the mischievous milk snatcher refashions Maggie as both a feminist crusader and a sympathetic victim, thanks in no small ...

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When I saw that director and Baltimorean John Waters had drawn up his own for the top films of 2011 for Art Forum , I perked up.

Great tits who have as many sons as daughters acquire more grandchildren than great tits with an uneven family composition. That is because their children are reproductively more successful concludes NWO researcher Reinder Radersma. He expects that his results are broadly applicable in the animal kingdom. Radersma gained his doctorate on 2 December from the University of Groningen.

I’ll probably die of cancer of some girly part, like tits or crotch, with Loki, the trickster god looking on and snickering at the irony, because I preach so often that it’s usually the ticker or lungs that gets women just like for men.

The news that hundreds of twitchers have descended on a quiet, coastal village in Hampshire to catch a glimpse of an incredibly rare Spanish sparrow may prompt some of us to dust off our binoculars to look out for unusual birds in our own gardens.

Best of Public Eye | 2011 in review | Man-on-the-street interviews

# fastfoodracism We've been writing all day about racist fast food receipts . But how could we forget sexist fast food receipts, too? Reader Diane writes: More »

A wrap of the best celebrity quotes from Australia and overseas for 2011.

IT'S probably not the kind of thing car-loving revheads will boast about, but both Canberra cops and organisers are praising this year's Summernats attendees as some of the best-behaved ever.