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Policy makers should drop the word "drought" as a blanket term and move to a sliding scale to describe dry conditions, the Environment Agency says.

Are we facing the end of new drug discovery?

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Sri Lanka's former army chief, who was imprisoned after losing an election to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was released from prison Monday to thousands of cheering supporters....

CHICAGO (AP) -- President Barack Obama and leaders around the globe locked in place an Afghanistan exit path Monday that will still keep their troops fighting and dying there for two more years, acknowledging there never will be point at which they can say, "This is all done. This is perfect."...

CHICAGO (AP) -- President Barack Obama and leaders around the globe locked in place an Afghanistan exit path Monday that will still keep their troops fighting and dying there for two more years, acknowledging there never will be point at which they can say, "This is all done. This is perfect."...

A summit is being held to help Scottish businesses guard against the growing threat of cyber criminals.

Parents need to do more to stop children spending too much time in front of televisions, computers and smartphones, according to a psychologist.

BUFFALO — A man plunged at least 180 feet Monday over Niagara Falls and survived - only the third person known to have gone over without a safety device and live.

Police say witnesses reported seeing the man climb over a railing at 10:20 a.m. Monday and "deliberately jump" into ...

The number of Scottish councils should be cut by almost half and their powers boosted to revitalise local government, a think tank says.

The UN condemns as "heinous" a suicide attack in Yemen that killed more than 90 soldiers, which al-Qaeda said it carried out.

Manchester City have won the Premier League title and are also top of the league when it comes to value for fans, according to ING.

The government's draft energy bill, designed to encourage investment in clean energy, could see higher consumer bills, critics fear.

Spain's football giants aim to dominate new media

The BBC's John Sudworth meets the Chinese entrepreneurs targeting the world's biggest mobile phone market.

China's booming market in mobile-phone apps

One woman's mission to design clothes for wheelchair users

Following the feature on how to grow a four-metre moustache, readers have been sending in pictures of their own follicly fertile upper lips.

Historian Dr Lucy Worsley looks through writer Samuel Pepys' scrapbook from the 17th Century, an early example of popular print culture.

Six years ago a group of surgeons opened a temporary clinic in Jordan to operate on Iraqis with injuries untreatable in their home country, but recent violence in Libya, Yemen and Syria has led to the project being extended and expanded

WACO, Texas (AP) -- A soldier accused of planning to bomb Fort Hood troops in a restaurant last summer wore a mask in court for the first time Monday as a jury was selected in his federal trial....