“To our sincere regret … it has now emerged that the text contains deeper levels of meaning, which are not immediately accessible to a non-native speaker.”

The Max Planck Institute has apologised after Chinese “poetry” it used to illustrate an article on the front of its journal turned out to be an advert for a brothel (Independent).

“Totally without merit.”

Mrs Justice Dobbs throws out Christian groups’ attempt to block scientists in the UK from creating human-animal hybrid embryos for research (BBC).

“Dolphin spongers are workaholic loners.”

That’s what ABC makes of a new study showing “female dolphins that use marine sponges to help them forage for prey spend less time socialising with others”.