Scarlett Johansson takes on Hollywood

Melissa Silverstein: Surprisingly, Scarlett Johansson has spoken out against the pressure female actors face to maintain a 'perfect' figure

Sex and taxes

Melissa Ditmore: Nevada's innovative $5-a-time sex tax would have given something back to the state's prostitutes

Ian Sample: Medics in the Urals have removed a tiny tree from a man's lung after he complained of chest pains

Marcel Berlins: I have seen whole French news bulletins go by without a single bleak item about financial ruin

Most Rev Vincent Nichols says Catholics should publicly oppose advert proposals

People left partially blind by a stroke learned to use undamaged parts of their brains to improve their vision

Spain debates ethical use of reproductive technology after 25-year-old interrupts hormone treatment to conceive

Janine di Giovanni on the French approach to getting back your sex life - and figure - after childbirth

Ela Soyemi: The pope is trying to take away one of the few things ordinary Africans can do to help themselves

Kent Miller: The idea that vaccines cause autism distracts from the US healthcare system's failure to care for people with the disease