Asperger syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder, one of a range of related conditions which cause difficulty relating to others and problems making sense of the world
Half the babies born this year will live to 100, it has been reported. But how does that square with predictions about the health effects of obesity and other modern-day perils, asks Michael Blastland in his regular column.Are you a lifespan optimist or pessimist? Is immortality just around the medical corner, or will we be so fat we’ll have to be rolled into super-sized early graves?
The BBC’s James Coomarasamy is following Barack Obama on the Democratic presidential hopeful’s foreign tour.