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

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

Business Secretary Vince Cable has attacked a plan being considered by fellow ministers to make it easier for companies to sack workers.

Nato leaders have formalised an agreement to hand control of Afghanistan to its own security forces in 2013. The summit also confirmed its timetable for a full combat pullout by 2014. Mark Mardell reports.

What keeps the Olympic torch relay on the road?

Farc rebels have killed 12 Colombian soldiers in an ambush near the Venezuelan border, in one of the deadliest attacks this year, officials say.

Nato leaders endorse plans to hand combat command in Afghanistan to local forces by mid-2013 and withdraw fighting troops by 2014.

Jonny Lomax weighs in with a 13-point haul as St Helens outplay Leeds to earn a deserved Super League win at Headingley.

Three police officers, a paramedic, a gas engineer and an elderly man are seriously injured in a gas explosion in Gateshead.

The head of Nasa has hailed a "new era" in exploration after the launch of the first cargo delivery to the space station by a private company.