Government leads new GM crops push
5 hours 45 min ago
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is set to reopen the debate about genetic modification by calling for the reform of crop licensing at EU level.
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Microsoft U-turn in Xbox games row
6 hours 54 min ago
Microsoft backtracks on controversial plans to impose strict restrictions on the playing and trading of games on its upcoming Xbox One console.
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Serena sorry for quotes on US rape
6 hours 59 min ago
World tennis number one Serena Williams apologises after reportedly appearing to criticise the victim in a high-profile US rape case.
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Work Programme 'not doing enough'
7 hours 37 min ago
Providers of the government's flagship Work Programme tell ministers the costs of helping sick and disabled jobseekers into employment cannot be met under the scheme.
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FBI uses surveillance drones in US
7 hours 42 min ago
The FBI has used drones for surveillance in limited cases over US soil and is developing a drone use policy, the FBI director tells the US Senate.
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Australia give three players debuts
7 hours 57 min ago
Australia name Israel Folau among three debutants for Saturday's first Test against the British & Irish Lions in Brisbane.
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Obama calls for nuclear arsenal cuts
8 hours 11 min ago
Speaking at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, President Barack Obama calls for reductions to be made in US and Russian nuclear stockpiles.
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Kerry calls Karzai to defuse tension
8 hours 14 min ago
The US Secretary of State John Kerry calls the Afghan leader to defuse tension over the opening of a Taliban office, an Afghan official tells the BBC.
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North Korea 'willing to join talks'
8 hours 26 min ago
The government in North Korea is willing to restart talks over its nuclear programme which broke down five years ago, according to Chinese officials.
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Congo attacks over arrests in India
8 hours 51 min ago
Shops belonging to Asians are targeted in a violent protest in DR Congo's capital over the arrest of Congolese students in India over the weekend.
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Lloyds to return to private hands
8 hours 52 min ago
George Osborne uses his Mansion House speech to the City to announce the government is preparing to sell its Lloyds Bank stake back to private investors.
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One in nine US bridges 'deficient'
9 hours 50 min ago
One in nine bridges in the US - more than 66,000 in total - are structurally deficient, a number likely to grow amid US budget woes, a report finds.
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NHS 'cover-up' unacceptable - Hunt
10 hours 19 min ago
There should be "no hiding place" for anyone involved in a cover-up by England's NHS regulator after baby deaths at a Cumbria hospital, the health secretary says.
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Early Mars atmosphere 'oxygen-rich'
10 hours 26 min ago
Mars' atmosphere could have been rich in oxygen four billion years ago - well before Earth's air became augmented with the gas.
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Protests flare over Egypt governor
10 hours 44 min ago
Egypt's tourism minister quits and protests erupt as a man with links to Islamists behind the deadly 1997 attack in Luxor is named as city governor.
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Royal baby's gender to be 'surprise'
10 hours 47 min ago
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge do not know the gender of their baby, it is revealed - as it is confirmed the birth will take place at St Mary's hospital in London.
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Xcom iOS app priced at premium
10 hours 56 min ago
A US publisher is pricing a sci-fi video game for iPhones and iPads at more than double the cost high-end titles are usually sold for on those devices.
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Karzai to boycott Taliban talks
11 hours 31 min ago
The Afghan government will not take part in peace talks with the Taliban unless the process is "Afghan-led", President Hamid Karzai announces.
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Naked mole-rat gives cancer clues
11 hours 36 min ago
A rodent that never gets cancer could hold the key to preventing or treating malignant tumours, say scientists.
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11 hours 46 min ago
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