When Concorde was decommissioned in 2003, supersonic air travel became a thing of the past. But work has begun on a passenger aircraft that could go further and ...

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Diplomatic tension has been growing between Argentina and the UK in recent weeks over the Falkland Islands. The 30th anniversary of the war between the two nations is ...

Knowing me, knowing you... BBC reporters Zoe Kleinman and Carolyn Rice swapped social networking lives for 24 hours. "I'm not anti-Twitter, I just don't really ...

Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab is in crisis, as it battles to cope with the famine that has hit areas under its control, writes the BBC's Farouk Chothia.

The world could get its first lab-grown burger this year, with scientists using stem cells to create strips of beef. But could vegetarians eat it? Scientists in the ...

Nearly three years after the Icelandic economy imploded, the country appears to be recovering, and some believe its approach may offer a possible solution to Europe's ...

Thirty-two years after most grammar schools were abolished the 11-plus exam which controlled entry to them still divides opinion among parents and teachers. But how ...

Dan Simmons looks at whether the high price of roaming when using a mobile device abroad is justified, or are operators ripping consumers off?

The BBC could be forced to hand back a prestigious award it won for the controversial Primark Panorama expose, after footage in the show of child labour in India was ...

The BBC has put forward proposals which could, potentially, block supporters of Palestine from making complaints about its coverage of the occupation.

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has hit back at Liberal Democrat MP Don Forster after the government minister demanded a full explanation of how the Sky F1 ...

The BBC has confirmed it may have to make drastic cuts to its World Service radio operations as part of the UK's efforts to cut public spending. But the ...

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The local TV news services which serve BBC director general Mark Thompson's home in Oxfordshire and David Cameron's Witney constituency may fall victim to ...

There is also a lot of duplication (newsnight arts show, the culture show could be merged and likewise film 2011 and Mark Kermode's film review on bbc news 24 ...