First British patient to undergo astonishing new op that leaves no scar

Victoria Newlove first woman in UK to keyhole surgery hysterectomy *. Op is performed through a single incision in patient's belly button By Alice Smellie

British scientists discover a new part of the human body - hidden deep in the eye

Nottingham researchers found the new layer - which is just 0.001 mm thick - within the cornea, the clear window at the front of the eye *.Called 'Dua's Layer', it could dramatically improve corneal graft treatments *.The previously undetected layer could explain a myriad of eye diseases By Nicola Rowe. Time to re-write the textbooks.

Star Wars-style planets with TWOSUNS are more capable of housing alien life than those which orbit a single star

Astronomy student Joni Clark created simulations of a variety of so-called binary systems - solar systems with two suns - to see how far habitable zones within them could spread *.This is because the twosuns orbit each other and create a safe zone which reduces the threat to those planets from solar winds *.This gives those planets within such binary systems more potential to be habitable than those in single sun set-ups By Victoria Woollaston

'OMG, it's William and Harry!' Excited Royal fan is almost overcome after she snaps the princes on her phone at celebrity polo match

As Royal spotting goes, this enthusiastic young woman hassurely scored gold with her picture of both Princes Harry and William. What she lacked in subtlety, she more than made up for in enthusiasm as she quickly snapped the brothers at the International Audi Polo in Beaufort, Gloucestershire, this afternoon.

Mandela: our hero and our neighbour

Long before Nelson Mandela's persistent ill health, Kekana Mangqwambi would drop in on his famous neighbour and rib the revered icon about his love life. The 92-year-old, Mandela's junior by just two years, met South Africa's first black leader after he returned to his childhood village Qunu once freed from an apartheid jail. "We used to spend time together. I normally arrived at night," said Mangqwambi sittingoutside a thatched mud hut in the winter sun. "I used to say "vuka sishumani ndini" (wake up manwith no girlfriend) and he would wake up, laugh, stand up and shake hands. Then I would sit down and we would chat the entire night." To the world, Nelson Mandela is a near-mythical peacesymbol who reconciled a fractured nation after decades of apartheid. Here in Qunu's gentle hills, he is no less a hero. But he is also a neighbour and fellow villager. "He's not my friend, he's more than a friend to me. He's like my brother," said Mangqwambi, who went on his first helicopter ride with Mandela. Despite being one of the world's most recognisable faces, Mandela was always down to earth. "You will never realise even if you came while we werestaying together that he is important," Mangqwambi told AFP. Stories tell of Mandela walking through the village's scattered homesteads with no airs and graces --no matter whom he met. "He's a hero," said Masiviwe Geledwana, who described him as "somebody like a god" who was incomparable to someone like himself.