Workers at Ground Zero receive therapy and a grief outlet in the shape of a golden retriever called Nikie - the site's only certified therapy dog. Other dogs helped at the city's family assistance centres. [BBC News]

BBC news article on the possibility that Mayans were cooking with chocolate as early as 900 B.C.

You may be a fan of the Star Wars films, but are you a follower? Moves are afoot to have the fictitious Jedi philosophy the movies espouse recognised as a proper religion.

A campaign to get people to write the entry on their census forms has succeeded in the term being included on the list of religions for the 2001 UK census.

Thousands of Britons receive an e-mail saying the Star Wars Jedi religion will be legally recognised if it has enough census mentions.

The similarities and differences in hunting with hounds in various countries all over the world. Story and audio clips. [RealMedia]

News about the Breitling Orbiter III round the world trip.

Councillors in West Hollywood vote in favour of a ban on de-clawing cats, saying that the practice is painful and cruel.

DNA research suggests that all dingoes are descended from a very small group of ancestors, possibly even a single female.

Article by BBC Science Reporter Helen Briggs about a claim that cats have evolved ways to exploit humans using their miaow.