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The story of DNA's discovery told in pictures

Hundreds of Hovis workers have lost their jobs at a baking factory in Birmingham ahead of its full closure next month.

China's ZTE is the latest Android device maker to agree to agree to Microsoft's patents fee demands over its use of Google's operating system.

The committee responsible for overseeing Qatar's 2022 World Cup says a new "workers' charter" will ensure worker welfare standards in the Gulf state.

A game reserve in South Africa's Western Cape is using some rather unusual methods to conserve the local rhino population and ensure its cheetahs reproduce.

A broadband bill sent to a deceased man by Virgin Media has gone viral on social media after his son-in-law complained.

Centre-left politician Enrico Letta appears set to become Italy's prime minister, and pledges a change of direction on austerity.

The earliest satellite maps of Arctic and Antarctic sea-ice have been assembled by scientists, showing the floes around the White Continent back in the 1960s were probably as extensive as they are now.

Boeing's quarterly profits beat analysts' forecasts despite the grounding by airlines of its 787 Dreamliner due to battery problems.

New results in the quest to determine why our Universe is made of matter rather than antimatter are reported - but the question remains unanswered.

Scientists think that more than a hundred dead dolphins found washed up on the Italian coast, may have been infected with a killer strain of measles.

Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler has reported a sharp drop in first quarter earnings, after profits plunged at both its passenger car and its commercial truck business.

The recession in Europe has led to a drop in congestion on the roads, according to data released by traffic analysis company INRIX.

A series of problems this year for the Dreamliner aircraft has led to turbulent times for its maker, Boeing.

An author of a new book about a fictional attempt to reintroduce bears to Scotland says there is interest in bringing the animals back for real.

Birdsong is to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as part of a new series titled Tweet of the Day, which will air before the Today programme for the next year.

Etihad Airways is to take a 24% stake in India's Jet Airways, in the first foreign investment in an Indian aviation company since ownership restrictions were eased.

Mercedes' parent company Daimler warns that profits this year will be lower than last year's as it reports a sharp fall in earnings for the last three months.

Medics 'fly' through skull with new digital model

The Jockey Club has launched the country's first-ever sport bond on offer to the general public

Games maker Nintendo has been helped back into profit by a weaker yen, but sales continue to struggle

German business confidence falls in April for the second consecutive month, according to a closely-watched Ifo survey.

Professor Chris Parkes, spokesman for the UK's involvement at Cern, explains why the anti matter has disappeared.

Former sports journalist Ed Hawkins explains why he quit his job at the age of 33.

Australia's central bank is planning to invest around 5% of its foreign currency reserves in Chinese government bonds, its deputy governor says.