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Ten thousand free tickets for a public party to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee are snapped up within minutes.

Will Gompertz on Ono's intriguing story

In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, the Carajas mining complex is a series of vast man-made chasms, extracting iron ore around the clock.

Tory MPs will meet later to discuss opposition to the plans - while the coalition is forced to assemble its rarely-used dispute committee, the BBC learns.

The Duke of Cambridge is supporting a conservation project which is releasing three black rhino from Kent, back into the wild in Tanzania.

Fans Theo Laycock and Bobby Faghihi give their views on England's crucial game against Euro 2012 co-hosts Ukraine.

Microsoft has shown off an own-brand family of tablets called Surface which will help it challenge Apple's dominant iPad.

The Brics economies say they will increase their contribution to the International Monetary Fund.

Is Sweden the big society blueprint David Cameron is looking for?

De-composer - will a music machine kill off the composer?

England's crunch Euro 2012 group game is in Ukraine against Ukraine. Sadly for England, home advantage is real.

Corset sales are booming. But what do the peaks and troughs of demand say about body image over the last 200 years?

Plans to make it easier to sack under-performing staff members are "not an attack on civil servants" and part of reforms backed by workers, says Francis Maude.

A university guide compares local crime rates - with London institutions at the top of this robbery league table.

Fewer re-sits and end of year exams rather than modules are proposed in plans to make A-levels more challenging.

People are risking their health by working on smartphones, tablets and laptops after they have left the office, according to the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.

The US warns an Iranian dissident group it must leave a camp in Iraq, if it hopes to be removed from a US list of terrorist groups.

Roadshows are being held in Edinburgh and Glasgow to encourage businesses to invest in the £1bn Dundee waterfront transformation.

A paralysed man who wants a doctor to be able to lawfully kill him is being condemned to live in a state of "suffering and indignity" by the current law, a court hears.

Proposals which would make it an offence to pay for sex are to be considered by the Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee.