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The United Arab Emirates must pay more than £260,000 to a victim of human trafficking who was exploited by one of its diplomats in London, the high court has ruled.

Homeland Security officials have urged disaster response staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency to avoid using the word “ice” in public messaging about the massive winter storm barreling toward much of the United States, according to two sources familiar with the directive.

Why do some people become the dictators' most brutal agents? And why do others overthrow them in a coup? The new research published in the book ‘Making a Career in Dictatorship: The Secret Logic behind Repression and Coups’ offers a surprising answer: it is not about fanaticism or sadism – but about the fear that one's own career is stalling.

Human penis size may indicate male attractiveness and fighting ability, with a larger size more attractive to women and more likely to intimidate rivals, according to Australian and South African researchers. The team asked more than 600 male and 200 female participants to rate computer-generated male figures that varied in height, body shape, and penis size. Women rated the figures’ sexual attractiveness, while men assessed how threatening they found them, both in terms of fighting ability and as a sexual rival. Women rated taller male figures with a higher shoulder-to-hip ratio (indicating a more V-shaped body) and a larger penis as being more attractive, but only up to a point, when further increases in penis size made little difference. Males also rated taller figures with more V-shaped bodies and larger penises as being more intimidating, both as sexual rivals and fighting opponents. But, in contrast to females, men consistently ranked males with ever larger penises as more of a sexual threat, suggesting they overestimate the importance of penis size in attracting a mate. These pressures may help explain why humans evolved larger penises than other primates, the authors conclude.

A groundbreaking new study using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) has revealed that the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago caused only a modest decline in shark and ray species. The findings challenge previous understandings of how severely this mass extinction affected life in the oceans.