News : British Broadcasting Corporation

News • British Broadcasting Corporation
Franics Tusa: "Our Tornadoes cost £35k an hour in flight."
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China's foreign ministry rejects claims by Google that Beijing is disrupting access to its e-mail service.
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There is always stiff competition for seats on commuter trains but it seems that getting your own seat no longer guarantees a comfortable journey.
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What about Watt?
22 Mar 2011 7:54:46
Celebrating the achievements of the first hero of the Industrial Revolution
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Japanese stocks are rising amid reports of progress in containing radiation leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
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Efforts resume to restore power and cool damaged reactors at Japan's quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, despite rising smoke and steam.
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Carmakers Toyota and Honda say they will not restart production this week as they struggle to get parts supplied.
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Decades of census data, alongside a mathematical model, suggest religion in nine countries is being driven to extinction.
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The telecoms regulator launches a consultation on how best to sell off the rights to 4G mobile wireless networks.
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A best-in-class demonstration of a quantum computing device shows that, after years of development, real quantum computers may be on the horizon.
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Global appeal?
22 Mar 2011 5:27:02
Can Indian fashion succeed on the international stage?
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Support for new nuclear power stations has fallen, a survey shows - though more people are in favour than opposed.
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An international comparison of trainee teachers suggests England's trainees have less mathematical knowledge than their peers in some chief economic competitors.
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Tokyo Electric Power will have to compensate farmers for losses caused by the nuclear radiation leaks.
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Your budget
22 Mar 2011 0:08:06
Changes to tax and benefits announced already
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Knowledge economy
22 Mar 2011 0:05:52
Why are there no African universities in the top 100?
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The US Treasury says it will start selling off $142bn worth of mortgage-backed securities that it bought during the financial crisis.
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Luxury jeweller Tiffany & Co says the closure of stores due to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami will hit sales and profits.
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The chancellor will announce a tax on private jet flights as part of a crackdown on tax loopholes in the Budget, the BBC understands.
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A construction worker, badly disfigured in a power line accident in 2008, has received the first full face transplant ever conducted in the United States
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Technology giant Microsoft sued Barnes & Noble, alleging the US bookseller's electronic book reader Nook infringes its patents.
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The Royal Mail announces it will cut more than 1,700 jobs and close two mail centres in London as part of its modernisation plans.
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Deutsche Telekom sells T-Mobile USA to rival AT&T for $39bn creating the largest US wireless network
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Appeal on Wales badger cull
21 Mar 2011 7:29:23
The Badger Trust appeals to assembly members to oppose plans for a cull of badgers in west Wales.
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Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, says Japan's earthquake and tsunami will disrupt the supply of some of its products.
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