Canada votes
ON MONDAY, Canadians go to the polls in a federal election that is shaping up as the most hotly-contested vote in over a decade. - John Rapley

Sea squirts and sewage
PROFESSOR IVAN Goodbody must be smiling. Researchers have extracted a promising cancer-treating chemical from Ecteinascidia turbinate. OK. Ecteinascidia turbinate is a family member of little marine animals called sea squirts, or tunicates.

The return of Rambo
JOHN RAMBO, he of strong arm and extremely sharp knife, has made a return to the US television networks. - Melville Cooke