“Monday’s child has learned to tie his bootlace,” sang Paul McCartney on The Beatles classic ‘Lady Madonna’. The yougling will also be refraining from devouring any lambchops on the same day if the legendary titan of popular music has anything to do with it.

Just days after the Royal Society of Scientists issued a warning that the world needs to deal with the vast amounts of carbon emissions produced by power stations, a group of eco warriors have stormed a train headed for Drax, the UK’s largest powerstation.

Orange may have slid down the telecoms league table in recent years, but the French mobile phone company’s latest venture puts them right at the heart of the cutting edge once again, not to mention in the good books of thousands of young music fans with SRI of the thumbs from too much texting.

With the G8 summit rapidly approaching, scientists are attempting to ensure climate change is the central agenda of discussions at the symposium for the world’s most powerful leaders, though this time they’ll not be satisfied with placatory noises and no action.

While NASA has been proving the sky is the limit for 40 years and beyond, it appears that down here on earth the organisation is not ammune to a little party political corruption.

Dubious national stereotyping aside, there is a great lineage and association between Scotland and the world’s finest whisky, though that conjugal felicity between man and distillery could be endangered as the climate heats up. In the next seven decades the Scots may have to get used to becoming synonymous with that most popular of French pursuits, winemaking. We’ll give you a moment to get your head around that one.