By AELWYN ROBERTS THE time when caring parents used to save to buy a set of Encyclopaedia Britannica to help children with their homework must by now be very nearly over. All knowledge is now freely obtained on the internet and it's so detailed and so quick.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rita Sri Mutiara Dewi's fiance could not get time off from his job in the United States. But that didn't stop the couple - who have never met in person - from tying the knot on Thursday.

A budding astronaut has become the second student from her tiny West Wales village to visit the nerve-centre of America's space programme. Charlotte Todd-Jones, 16, won a trip to the Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, with an essay about a manned mission to Mars.