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Several High Street chains agree to pay up to £20m to 2,000 people who received chemical burns from sofas.

Si vous pensez qu'avoir deux roues sur un vélo, c'est tricher, alors le monocycle est pour vous. En revanche, la version extrême de ce sport où l'équilibre est roi n'est réservée qu'aux plus intrépides.

La nature particulièrement fluide d'Internet favorise les trafics en tous genres et, en particulier, celui des espèces menacées.

De son côté, Angela Merkel a de nouveau assuré qu'une sortie de la Grèce de la zone euro n'était pas une option envisageable.

"La Pologne, c'est notre grand engagement commun. Il exige que la souffrance personnelle soit surmontée", déclare le frère jumeau du président mort le 10 avril dans un accident d'avion en Russie.

A l'occasion de la journée internationale de lutte contre le paludisme, le 25 avril.

Football fans in a Kenyan town express anger at a ban on satellite TV ahead of the World Cup, imposed because of fears of pornography.

Hamburg sack under-fire coach Bruno Labbadia only three days before the club's Europa League second leg tie against Fulham.

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Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse raises its full-year profit forecast for the third time in six months.

Drupal, the open-source software, has got a high-profile endorsement from the White House. White House uses Drupal for managing and publishing its content through its official Website, WhiteHouse.gov. It has released some customized Drupal codes and four new modules. ‘Context HTTP Headers’ is one such module designed to improve scalability and allows content owners to add [...]

Android market continues to grow by leap and bounds. The Google OS app distribution service now has 50,000+ titles in its list, half of which are free. The Android market added 9,000 new apps in its kitty, in the month of March alone. Google OS, which has been in the market for the last year and [...]

Robotic submersibles are being used to try to stop a serious oil leak nearly a mile below the surface in the Gulf of Mexico.

Scientists have identified three genetic mutations that increase the number of cigarettes people smoke a day.

Leading physicist Stephen Hawking says they almost certainly exist, but contacting them will be a big mistake. Are you with him on this?

Scientists in Australia design a cane toad "sausage" to help protect vulnerable predators from the poisonous toads.

The payload for the first spacecraft in Europe's sat-nav system leaves a UK factory for final preparations in Italy.

Drawing curves with FXG is not the most intuitive thing in the world. I built this rudimentary explorer to help wrap my brain around it and as always thought it might be worth sharing. I didn’t feel like recreating the feature set of Adobe Illustrator 1.0 so you can’t add points to the path. You [...]

An attack on a widely used web security system could soon help make silicon chips more powerful and reliable.

A mayor in north-eastern China is sacked for failing to respond to a mass "kneeling" protest over alleged local corruption.