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Hospital consultants should consider working weekends to cut the spike in deaths on Saturdays and Sundays, a doctors' leader says.

A senior Indian police officer is run over and killed by a vehicle carrying illegally quarried stones in northern Madhya Pradesh state, police say.

China's cyber warfare skills pose a threat to the United States military in the event of a conflict, says a report for the US Congress.

Could the Cloud crash?

In Japan towns that were badly affected by the tsunami are now getting the chance to experience and play traditional djembe drums from Africa

Who owns these blue suede shoes?

Patrick Kane, 14, has a bionic arm and leg after limb loss from severe blood poisoning as a baby. We follow him for a day to find out about life with a bionic body.

The Freemasons are rebranding themselves as a modern, open organisation. But can this male-dominated body cast off its secretive image and win over a sceptical public?

Consumer price inflation in China falls to a 20-month low as food price rises ease, giving policymakers room to stimulate growth.

Coca-Cola and Pepsi alter their fizzy drink recipe in the United States to avoid having to put a cancer warning label on the bottle.

Urgent action is needed to stop drought in the Sahel region of West Africa turning into a humanitarian disaster, the charity Oxfam says.

Italy's foreign minister asks Britain to provide "utmost clarity" within "hours" about the failed attempt to rescue a Briton and Italian in Nigeria, as a row over the handling of the operation deepens.

One dose of the hallucinogenic drug LSD could help alcoholics give up drinking, according to an analysis of studies performed in the 1960s.

Terry Jones on Douglas Adams who would have been turning 60

Long division, singing backwards - 10 readers' cures for earworms

Police investigate claims that Newcastle football supporters damaged advertising hoardings during a reserve game at their renamed stadium.

Talks between Australia's Qantas and Malaysia Airlines about establishing a joint venture premium airline in Asia break down.

The oldest surviving film featuring a Charles Dickens character has been discovered at the British Film Institute.

Afghans use web to lampoon cleric ruling on women

The world's oldest surviving Charles Dickens film has been discovered a day after the 200th anniversary of the famous author's birth.