The Iron Maiden film Flight 666 has won the award for best music documentary at the SXSW Film & Music Festival in Austin, Texas. The achievement follows the band's recent win at the 2009 Brit Awards for Best British Live Act. We are, of course, very pleased.

By Jenny Stocks A dyslexic Cornish teenager who excels in chemistry has blazed a trail for fellow pupils who want to take their AS-level exam early. Sam Dunn, 16, from Fowey School, embarked on his AS in chemistry at just 15 - while he was studying for his GCSEs.

By JUSTIN M. NORTON Associated Press writer SAN FRANCISCO -- Heavy metal singer Chris Barnes didn't know what people would think of "Amerika the Brutal," an anti-war song he wrote after his cousin deployed to Iraq in 2003.

By Nichola Groom NEW YORK (Reuters) - Six years ago, anthropologist Sam Dunn made the unusual switch from studying Guatemalan refugees to starring in his own film about long-haired, leather-clad, headbanging rockers. To the 30-year-old Canadian, however, the jump made perfect sense.

By BARRY DIDCOCK "BANGER, rocker, skid call me what you want, I'm a metal fan and I'm proud." With those words, film-maker Sam Dunn opens his unflinching and entertaining history of music's most demonised and least fashionable form: heavy metal.