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The House of Commons Commission is due to decide later whether all MPs should be issued with tablet computers after a committee said the move would save money.

Engineering students in California are fine-tuning a car they hope can achieve 3,000 miles to the gallon.

A £100m revamp for Newport's shopping centre is backed by councillors.

Oil has been discovered in Kenya after exploratory drilling by Anglo-Irish firm Tullow Oil, President Mwai Kibaki says.

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AG Barr, the maker of Irn Bru, reports 16.4% increase in profits and a substantial increase in turnover.

The computer games retailer GAME, which employs 146 people in Northern Ireland, enters administration.

Google is ordered to disable parts of its autocomplete feature following complaints that a man was wrongly associated with criminal activity.

Nicolas Sarkozy plans to clamp down on militant Muslim preachers entering France, as the country's presidential election looms.

London Mayor Boris Johnson insists he will not allow a third runway to be built at Heathrow airport, amid reports the idea could be back on the table.

Paedophiles are hiding images of child sex abuse on websites that look like regular web shops, reveals a report.

Essex Police apologises to Falklands War veteran Simon Weston over comments made by an officer on Facebook.

The new system for restricting the movements of suspected terrorists could prove "less effective" than the former control orders, the independent reviewer of terrorism laws says.

Video game retailer, Game Group, goes into administration, with the immediate closure of 277 stores in the UK and Ireland.

Police search for a man after a Salford woman has acid thrown at her in a racist attack as she pushes her baby in a pram.

Julian Fellowes' Titanic drama receives largely underwhelming reviews from newspaper critics after the first episode is shown on ITV1.

China and the US will co-ordinate their response to a controversial North Korean rocket launch, the White House says, as Korea tensions rise.

A British climber is preparing to honour an Olympic pledge by taking a very special gold medal to the summit of Mount Everest.

A woman accused of breaking into Simon Cowell's home brandishing a broken brick is remanded in custody.

The teenage pilot of a hot air balloon which crashed into power lines has said he has not been put off flying.