Pet lovers tune in to an internet radio station designed to ease the lives of lonely dogs and cats around the world. Known as "the radio station all pets prefer", DogCatRadio. com goes out live 17 hours each day from a van in the car park of a Los Angeles recording studio.

Most would agree that a good nights sleep is good for you. One European doctor takes the sage advice to a new level. A lack of sleep makes you "fat, stupid and sick", according to a German scientist. Sleep researcher Professor Juergen Zulley from the Regensburg University Hospital in Bavaria said: "It makes you stupid because suffering from sleep deficiency diminishes your memory. Sick, because too little sleep can damage your heart, circulation, stomach and intestines. And fat because while we are sleeping are bodies release a hormone that reduces appetite.