People in Gloucestershire, England are being warned not to fight over water supplies in a county where about 130,000 homes are still without water after severe flooding. Authorities there warned that anyone caught fighting over emergency supplies or damaging water equipment would be put in jail.

A man with a brain significantly smaller than average managed to live an entirely normal life working as a civil servant. When the 44-year-old man's brain was scanned, it showed that a huge fluid-filled chamber took up most of his skull. French researchers say it left room for only a thin sheet of actual brain tissue. "He was a married father of two children, and worked as a civil servant," Dr Lionel Feuillet of the Universite de la Mediterranee in Marseille said in the Lancet medical journal. When Dr Feuillet's staff took his medical history, they discovered he had had a shunt inserted into his head to drain away water on the brain as a child. The researchers were shocked when scans showed a "massive enlargement" of the lateral ventricles - chambers, usually small in size, that hold the fluid that acts as a cushion for the brain. Intelligence tests showed the man had an IQ of 75, below the average score of 100 but not enough to classify him as mentally retarded or disabled. "What I find amazing to this day is how the brain can deal with something which you think should not be compatible with life," said Dr Max Muenke, a brain specialist at the National Human Genome Research Institute. "If something happens very slowly over quite some time, maybe over decades, the different parts of the brain take up functions that would normally be done by the part that is pushed to the side. "

One government official is fighting to cancel a reality television show featuring a terminally ill patient charged with picking the most deserving contestant to receive her kidney. The "Big Donor Show," is planned to air this Friday. One member of Dutch parliament is protesting the show. But advocates for the show say that it is meant to draw attention to the shortage of donated organs and the long lines for them.

We all know that dogs wag their tails to express happiness, but a new Italian study now suggests that dogs show pleasure by wagging their tails more towards the right, while negative feelings get a left-swaying wag. An Italian neuroscientist at the University of Trieste, Dr. Giorgio Vallortigara, and two veterinarians from the University of Bari, Marcello Siniscalchi and Angelo Quaranta, closely watched 30 caged family pets of mixed breeds over 25 days, performing 10 tests per day.

Too lazy to get up from bed in the morning to make yourself a coffee? Now don't bother to do that as scientists have now invented Shower Shock, the world's first caffeinated soap that claims it will give you the same kind of kick as your morning cup of coffee. This vegetable-based glycerin soap from Think Geek claims to release caffeine that is absorbed into your body and provides the same hit as a couple of cups of coffee. The users blood pressure and pulse rate will increase, making his brain feel more alert and awake.