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Asda chief executive Andy Clarke says the horsemeat scandal was about criminality - not cheap food.

The European Space Agency is turning to owners of terrestrial robot aircraft to aid those that journey into space.

The Electrical Safety Council has warned that the majority of consumers are ignoring product recalls and as a result households are using electrical goods that could cause a fire or electrocution

The number of people working in the video games industry has grown for the first time in three years, claims report

Seven rare Komodo dragons have been born in a zoo in Indonesia's East Java Province.

The chancellor is a few days away from his 2013 Budget speech aiming to helping to help the economy, to cheer his backbenchers and win over potential voters.

The last new bank to open was in 2007, but a change of rules by India's central bank could ease start-ups.

The Today programme's Evan Davis looks at figures newly released by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Will a resource-scarce future lead to more appliances being leased?

India's film industry has turned its attention to the country's inflation rate, which has been around 7%

Scientists warn that a rethink on fishing is needed after finding that catching big fish triggers a rapid change in genes - leading to fewer, smaller fish stocks.

The Cypriot bailout throws away all the rules painfully negotiated since the 2007-8 on how to bring order to banking systems in a crisis, Robert Peston says.

Chancellor George Osborne is being urged again to increase spending on infrastructure by lobby groups the Institute of Directors and the Item Club.

The BBC's John Moylan visited the proposed site for Hinkley Point C and went inside the existing Hinkley B nuclear power station.

Civil servants will hold a second strike over pay and pensions after an initial Budget day walkout, the Public and Commercial Services union confirms.

Cyprus' parliament is due to hold an emergency session to discuss a big bailout, which has angered the public.

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The deepest place in the ocean - the Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean - is teeming with microscopic organisms, scientists find.

A new study claims that EU proposals to reduce CO2 will increase cost of cars, but save much more on petrol.

The government says it will accept most of former deputy PM Lord Heseltine's plan to stimulate the economy by boosting England's regions.

The UK tax authority's new target for answering calls from taxpayers is "unambitious and woefully inadequate", according to a committee of MPs.

Asian markets dip after the Cyprus bailout plans trigger fears of an escalation of the eurozone debt crisis.

Should the government pull back or plough on with cuts?

There are more than a billion cars in the world today - and by the middle of the century there could be up to four times as many.

There has been a new eruption at Mount Etna, sending red lava spewing into the skies over Sicily.