Saturday last my little sister was married to her childhood sweetheart. She looked absolutely breathtaking and the happy couple did a wonderful job of entertaining us all. There were ground breaking dance renditions, wonderful speeches, incredible food and a fantastic master of ceremonies (ME!).
Check out the stunning winning photographs from the 2010 Digital Photographer of the Year Competition. Some truly incredible moments have been captured!
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The theme for this year's World AIDS Day is 'Universal Access and Human Rights'. Although universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care is a human right, across the world 9.4 million people are still in need of life-saving antiretroviral treatment.
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Why not improve your vocabulary, learn a language or brush up on your maths skills whilst donating grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Programme to help end hunger. For each question you answer correctly, www.freerice.com donates 20 grains of rice to the WFP to be distributed in areas which need it most. The more you answer the harder the questions get!
The UN World Food Programme is the largest humanitarian organisation in the world and works closely with hundreds of other organisations in 75 different countries, fighting global hunger and supporting communities and local farmers to increase self-reliance and sustainable production.
Looking to live on in ecological immortality? Then why not take up the challenge to name one of Britains many un-named species. The competition is being run in conjunction with Natural England, The Oxford University Museum of Natural History and The Guardian. Plants and animals are dying out across the UK without ever being known to more than a few scientists, who have found common names are key to conserving endangered species as the general public find it hard to care about species with cold, clinical and hard to remember scientific names.
So get those creative juices flowing and give an imaginitive name to 10 currnetly un-named British species...including the beautiful coral-like Jellyfish, Haliclystus Auicula above and these below!...
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