Science This article is more than 3 months oldPositively glowing: fluorescent mammals are far more common than earlier thought, study suggestsThis article is more than 3 months oldScientists believe luminescent quality is widespread after finding 86% of species studied had fur that glowed in UV light Fluorescence in mammals is much more common than previously thought, new research suggests. A luminous property, fluorescence has been described in recent years in Australian marsupials including platypuses, wombats, Tasmanian devils and echidnas.

BereavementWhen his wife died, Benjamin Mee seemed to become strangely attractive to women. Why is grief such an aphrodisiac, he asksWhen my wife died at the age of 40 from a brain tumour in 2007, I remember going in a daze to the council offices with my four-year-old daughter to register her death. The certificate was laboriously scrawled with an ancient fountain pen, and the registrar solemnly asked me to check the details before signing it.

Inside Banksy’s Walled Off hotel in Bethlehem GuardianPalestinian territories This article is more than 6 years old'Worst view in the world': Banksy opens hotel overlooking Bethlehem wallThis article is more than 6 years oldExclusive: British artist launches Walled Off hotel in hope of bringing Israeli tourists – and dialogue – to West Bank city The Walled Off Hotel by Banksy – in pictures The Walled Off hotel may sound utilitarian, even bleak.

STAGE AND SCREENDid American gangsters in the 1920s and 1930s really carry guns in violin cases, or was that characteristic invented by movie scriptwriters? D.A. Levey, Boston, Massachusetts USA It was more common for gangsters to carry guns in newspapers. Due to the large size of certain US newspapers in the 1920's and the early part of the 1930's (papers were almost twice the size they are today - this applied to Britain too) even a machine gun could be concealed relatively easily.

Technology This article is more than 23 years oldFirst internet wedding goes onlineThis article is more than 23 years oldMarriage room at Brent Town HallThe first wedding in England and Wales to be broadcast on the internet from a council register office was held this morning at Brent Town Hall, north-west London. Brent Council installed a web cam in its register office, allowing a potential global audience of millions to log on as Ravi Ram and his girlfriend Mamta Patel take their vows.