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Best actress hopeful Kate Winslet favourite to pick up a coveted Oscar after five unsuccessful

Beware: the spinetwisting yoga pose you strike in your gym or village hall is not just a struggle

Amnesty International has called for a global arms embargo to be placed on Israel following the

Hollywood stars were out in force on the red carpet as the annual Oscars got under way.

Western tourists were apparently targeted in an attack in a crowded market in Cairo on Sunday

Terrorism returned to the streets of Egypt's capital Cairo on when a bomb tore through a crowded

A British couple have been plucked from their stricken yacht in midAtlantic by an Italian tanker

Greece's most notorious prisoner and his acomplice escaped from a maximumsecurity prison in Athens

China is preparing to open a new phase in its race for the world's resources by using its huge

An Oregon woman finally received an invitation to her nephew's high school graduation in New Jersey

Terrorism returned to the streets of Egypt's capital Cairo when a bomb tore through a crowded

The global financial crisis has swept away the jobs of 200000 diamond workers in India ruining

A bomb detonated outside a historic Cairo mosque in a crowded bazaar frequented by tourists

President Barack Obama has set himself the immensely ambitious goal of cutting the federal

Explosion in northern China kills 74 miners leaving dozens trapped.

The wisdom of Chinese sage Confucius could soon be taught in schools to broaden pupils'

Royal Shakespeare Company in row over Maoriinspired risqué dance.

PM Kevin Rudd vowed Australia would rise from the "ashes of despair" as bush fires that killed

RAF chiefs are facing an embarrassing delay to the deployment of Tornados in Afghanistan because

The Princess Royal joined mourners at a national remembrance ceremony for the bushfire victims in

Mexia a town of 10000 people in Texas may hold clues to Sir Allen Stanford's alleged 9.6 billion

British entrepreneur Stephen Fowler has sparked the wrath of his adopted homeland after mocking a

Barack Obama might very well owe his national political career to Louis Susman.

Afghanistan's president and vicepresident accused each other of being US stooges during a heated

When residents of the lush mountain glades of Pakistan's Swat valley turn on their radios each

Guerrillas in southern Lebanon launched an unexpected missile attack against Israel raising the

Its name has long been associated with torture first under the regime of the late Saddam Hussein

Middleclass Poles feel that Britain is no longer a land of opportunity and it is time to return

Hillary Clinton has come under fire for her attitude to China's human rights record after it

Reports of Obama making one of his biggest fundraisers Louis Susman the new US ambassador in

The team behind Kate Winslet's film The Reader which is up for several Oscars have enlisted the

The police chief in Mexico's deadliest city has quit in response to a threat from drug gangs to

An Australian author jailed for three years for insulting Thailand's crown prince in an obscure

Sir Nigel Sheinwald Britain's ambassador in the United States has helped persuade Helen Mirren to

A professional gatecrasher who snuck his way into last year's Oscars has been hired by the

North Korea could test fire an intermediate range ballistic missile before the end of the month

Rebuilding Zimbabwe could cost 5 billion £3.5 billion the country's prime minister Morgan

An inmate in a Montana prison has filed a 10 million federal lawsuit alleging that jailers

The Vatican has lodged a formal complaint with the Israeli government over a TV programme that

A former Cheshire soldier held on suspicion of drug trafficking in Venezuela appeared on Jeremy

How can the world put itself to rights when the nations wobble asks Charles Moore.

Binyam Mohamed was facing the death penalty for allegedly plotting a radioactive "dirty bomb"

The New York Post apologised to those offended by a cartoon that likened President Barack Obama

Sir Allen Stanford's lavish spending turned the Caribbean island of Antigua into his very own

British Muslims are providing the Taliban with electronic devices to make roadside bombs used

Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyle's movie set in Mumbai is the film to beat at this year's Oscars

Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler and Sean Penn for Milk are battling it out as favourites for the

Danny Boyle is the oddson favourite to pick up the award for best director for his Mumbaiset

Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyle's Mumbaiset movie may be overwhelming favourite to win the best

Kate Winslet nominated for best actress at the Oscars in Los Angeles is the most indemand British

Heath Ledger's family will accept an Oscar on his behalf at the ceremony in Los Angeles if as

Christopher Booker says that the Government must be absolutely sure that their data on climate

First meerkat pups born in zoo for nine years.

Floating vegetable gardens and canalside allotments are the latest initiative to encourage more

Hopes that the lost city of Atlantis had been found on Google Earth have been shattered.

Crown Estate plans to build a huge offshore wind farm on England's only World Heritage Site have

Shopaholics are being urged to take cast offs to charity shops in a Government drive to reduce the

Children should play outside and 'get dirty' according to the National Trust which is launching a

Hopes that a 'grid of streets' of the lost city of Atlantis had been found on Google Ocean have

Scientists have captured dramatic footage of massive lakes in the Arctic melting away in a matter

Explorer Pen Hadow will this week embark on his most arduous expedition a threemonth scientific

A "grid of streets" on the seabed at one of the proposed locations of the lost city of Atlantis

Japan's first rooftop "sky park" above a bustling intersection is being built in a bid to create a

Texans may be allowed to take to the air in helicopters to gun down the millions of pigs that are

Shopaholics will be urged to take cast offs to charity shops rather than dumping old clothes in the

A photograph of a giant snake apparently swimming up a river in Borneo has fuelled speculation that

The black market trade in smuggled puppies has caused complaints from unsuspecting animal lovers to

Two professors are pumping salt into clouds to change the way they reflect light from the sun in

The '101 greatest questions of all time' have been answered in a BBC magazine. Here we present

Rising sea levels are threatening the planet but a glaciologist has devised a way to prevent

A 500tonne oil slick was heading for British shores after a huge spill in the Atlantic.

A prominent animal rights activist has joined the Countryside Alliance in a coup for the hunting

A lamb was seen headbutting a golden eagle on the Outer Hebrides in a show of extraordinary animal

A company which ran an Essex nuclear power station has been fined £250000 for allowing radioactive

The Good Life is back with more than a quarter of people in Britain growing their own fruit and

Astronomer proposes building giant sunshield to protect the planet.

As the global recession deepens we must ensure that British agriculture survives and thrives in

A rare quail that was feared to have become extinct has been spotted alive for the first time in

The world's biggest mobile phone manufacturers and network operators have agreed to adopt a new

Manure slurry and food could be used to create enough energy to heat and power more than two

Samsung has launched the world's first solarpowered touchscreen mobile phone.

As global warming worsens the idea of vast projects to alter the Earth's environment is moving

Excessive supermarket food packaging is undermining householders' efforts to recycle and adding

Farmers should concentrate on producing more food for Britain in order to combat the recession

A white alligator one of only 12 of its kind anywhere in the world has been brought in from the

Tropical forests could dry out and become prone to wildfires which could devastate large areas as

Farmers will receive new payments to "set aside" uncultivated land under plans to be put forward by

Domestic cats are to be tagged by scientists in a bid to discover how damaging they are to urban

Climate change will be more devastating than predicted one of the world's leading environmental

Ladybird spiders Britain's rarest and most colourful spider has been saved from extinction

Pocket pickmeups are a great way to help fight off the cold. Compiled by Maria Fitzpatrick.

Britain is in danger of losing native wildlife as younger generation do not remember what the

Living near trees makes people live longer and feel happier new research shows.

Covering Greenland in blankets to stop the ice sheets melting "tree bombs" to regenerate forests

Anglers have been banned from a reservoir for fear they may hook passersby.

The balance of evidence does strongly suggest that humanity's activities are leading to changes

The price of oil has fallen from a peak of 147 to around the 40 mark which could be throwing up a

Teams of energy advisers will visit every home in the country over the next two decades in an

New study on the impact of climate change on fish.

E. ON has cut its electricity prices lowering annual bills for 4.1 million of its customers by

Google Earth joins bid to cut toad deaths on UK roads.

Honey bees use a complex system of consulting one another before choosing a hive in a process