Emily Wilson

Australian politician attacked by kangaroo

guardian.co.uk — An Australian politician taking his morning jog through the capital has been attacked by a kangaroo. Shane Rattenbury, a minister in the Australian Capital Territory government that administers Canberra, said he was jogging along the pavement in suburban Ainslie when he almost collided with an eastern grey kangaroo that had been grazing on a front lawn.

The six new US TV shows we're most excited about

guardian.co.uk — Upfronts, the Christmas Eve of US television, are upon us. This is a sort of annual television cattle market, where networks show advertisers their wares for the upcoming autumn season in the hope of getting them to buy ad time "up front".

BBC appoints Ian Katz and Jamie Angus as Newsnight and Today editors

guardian.co.uk — The BBC has appointed new editors of flagship news shows Newsnight and Today, with Guardian deputy editor Ian Katz taking over the BBC2 show and its deputy editor Jamie Angus moving to the Radio 4 breakfast programme.

Were the Victorians cleverer than us? It depends which way you look at it

guardian.co.uk — New research in the journal Intelligence suggests the Victorians were naturally cleverer than we are, and draws the startling conclusion that "the Victorian era was marked by an explosion of innovation and genius, per capita rates of which appear to have declined subsequently".

20 Of The Wisest Things Ever Said About Friendship

buzzfeed.com — Read these, then go hug your best buddy. ..

Type 2 diabetes and the diet that cured me

guardian.co.uk — Why me? At 59 I was 10st 7lb, 5ft 7in, and had never been overweight. I ran and played cricket regularly and didn't drink alcohol excessively. Yet at a routine check-up I was told that I had type 2 diabetes.

As someone who uses alcohol as a prop myself, I can see there's a problem

guardian.co.uk — More nagging about booze. How tiresome. A new study, from the universities of Newcastle and Sunderland and published in the public health journal BMC, claims that: "Middle class professionals who drink at home are the country's biggest problem drinkers because they think they know better than health experts."

NHS 111 non-emergency helpline in chaos, say doctors

guardian.co.uk — The "problematic" roll-out of the NHS 111 phone advice line has left patients not knowing where to turn to for help, leading doctors have warned. The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) said patients have lost confidence in the new non-emergency number before it is even fully up and running across the country.

Is Prince Harry still a bad boy?

guardian.co.uk — Prince Harry's last trip to the US began in Las Vegas and ended in a blizzard of bad publicity. If he could have been discharged from the monarchy for conduct unbecoming to a prince, he would have been.

Bangladesh collapsed factory survivor rescued 17 days on

guardian.co.uk — Rescue workers were stunned on Friday afternoon when a female garment worker was rescued alive from the rubble 17 days after the Rana Plaza building collapsed outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. Reshma Begum, who identified herself as a seamstress who worked on the 3rd floor of Rana Plaza, had been breathing through a pipe from inside the wreckage, army soldiers conducting the rescue operation said.