Wayne Dyer’s Your Erroneous Zones helped David James crawl out of a black hole

Some twenty odd years ago a friend passed on to me a book by Wayne Dyer called Your Erroneous Zones. He had, in fact, purchased it in error, having misread the title as Your Erogenous Zones! This was my first introduction to Dyer who is known by his fans as the 'father of motivation'.  My disappointed friend hadn’t got beyond the first few pages.  I, on the other hand, couldn’t put the book down.

Bill Nighy's career took off after he faced his own demons at the age of 42.  Sixteen years later he is still mesmerising audiences with his unique brand of crumpled vulnerability and total manliness.

Alan Franks interviews Nighy about his unexpected rise to late stardom and the point when he realised the time was right to turn his life around.

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Soaring food prices triggering riots in several countries, climate change threatening increased population displacement and the world's growing demand for energy caught up with both - are these interlinked issues the new challenges to conflict prevention in Africa? 

By Alex Evans, former special adviser to the UK's Secretary of State for International Development

This week, for the first time since it was set up in the 1970s, issues of resource security – and scarcity – are dominating the G8. Climate change, the Japanese government’s top G8 priority, is making itself felt faster and stronger than scientists thought even just a few years ago. Food prices have risen 83 per cent in three years; oil is just below $145 – its highest level ever.

Astronomers have uncovered an extreme stellar machine - a galaxy in the very remote universe pumping out stars at a surprising rate of up to 4,000 per year. In comparison, our own Milky Way galaxy turns out an average of just ten stars per year.

The discovery, made possible by several telescopes including NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, goes against the most common theory of galaxy formation. According to the theory, called the Hierarchical Model, galaxies slowly bulk up their stars over time by absorbing tiny pieces of galaxies - and not in one big burst as observed in the newfound 'Baby Boom' galaxy.  

By Whitney Calvin

A Jewish man walked into the Lingerie Department of Macy's in New York. He tells the saleslady, 'I would like a Jewish bra for my wife, size 32A.'

With a quizzical look the saleslady asked, 'What kind of bra?'

He repeated, 'A Jewish bra. She said to tell you that she wanted a Jewish bra and that you would know what she wanted.'

While love may conquer all, it won't survive an in-depth interrogation about a partner's recycling habits on the first date advises Anna Shepherd

Once you've been together a few years (in my case make that eight) you reach a point in your relationship when you can happily hurl abuse at your loved one if he (or she) so much as leaves the tap on a for a moment longer than is necessary to rinse a plate or dampen a toothbrush. By then, the extent of your eco-fascism will have been revealed. But at the beginning, my advice would be to take it slow.