This is interesting, Dutch department store Hema has chosen male model Andrej Pejic to front it’s latest advertising campaign. The campaign to advertise it’s range of bust enhancing lingerie is perhaps a good choice. The lingerie claims to enhance the bust by as much as two cup sizes, something which it seems must be true as their model has no natural cleavage.

According to this article a group of scientists are attempting to clone a woolly mammoth. The scientists from Russia and Japan claim that a thigh bone found in August contains marrow cells that are well preserved enough to form the starting point of a cloning experiment. They hope that the cloning will be complete within the next five years, although others have cast doubt on whether it will be possible. The team will extract a nucleus from the animals bone marrow and insert it into the egg of an African elephant. It will be interesting to revisit this at a later date and see how successful the experiment is.

After several months of feeling like a whale I finally have the relief of having given birth to my baby. In all I put on a total of just over 2 stone during my pregnancy and have never felt so heavy before. When my waters broke early I noted that I had already lost a total of 5 pounds and after the birth, with Penny weighing in at 6.4lbs I had lost a stone. That still leaves an extra stone of weight still to shift, something I will start working on in the new year. I am sure once I resume an exercise programme it will soon drop off, but for now I intend to enjoy Christmas and my new baby before concentrating on shifting those extra pounds.

Penny is now just under two weeks old and we have been home for around 7 days after nearly a week spent in hospital. I have been recovering quite well, despite having to have an episiotomy during labour to help pass the baby’s head. Penny had a slightly shaky start, she was whisked away to the special care baby unit very quickly after birth leaving little time to bond and was back and forth to the unit for the first two days of our hospital stay. Luckily the prolonged labour does not appear to have had any lasting effects and Penny has continued to do well.

For the first week of her life she had trouble maintaining her blood sugar, something that was not helped by the fact she was unable to breast feed. Early on, I started expressing milk for her and with a regular intake given from a bottle she is now feeding regularly, although still struggles to latch on when breast feeding. We are continuing to try breast feeding with slightly more of a success rate as Penny gets older but I guess the main point is that she is now getting enough milk at regular intervals. I must admit, despite having to wake Penny to feed her every 4 hours, something which is proving a little tiring, I am thoroughly enjoying my new baby. I wonder whether the novelty will wear off after several more weeks of no sleep.

US scientists claim they have created the ultimate hangover cure. The pill which contains a combination of aspirin and caffeine claims to eradicate all symptoms within just 15 minutes. Called Blowfish it targets all hangover symptoms including nausea, vomiting and fatigue. It contains 500 milligrams of aspirin, 60 milligrams of caffeine and an antacid and is already available to order online. It has already launched across the US. If successful there it will also be available within the UK next year for £1.90 for a pack.

If you have ever wondered what Britain's happiest dog might look like, then you need look no further. Alfie (pictured) has recently won the title. He beat dozens of other dogs to win the competition which was organised by Penguin Books.

This impressive looking creature could be the world’s heaviest insect. Weighing in at 71g about three times more than a mouse the giant weta is the largest ever recorded.