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A British man convicted of plotting to blow up an aircraft tells a court that Osama Bin Laden said his attack would bring down the US economy.

Unlocking the secrets of the human voice

Decades of increasing Mexico-US immigration have come to an end, a report says, citing tough border control and economic conditions in both nations.

How pranksters seek to fool the media

Ex-News International boss James Murdoch tells the Leveson Inquiry it "remains his position" he did not see an email about wide-spread phone hacking at the News of the World.

Differing views on the merits of directly-elected mayors

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is on a tour of the UK this week and the BBC's transport correspondent Richard Westcott got a chance to look around it.

A lack of strategic thinking is leading to a "patch and mend" approach to policy-making, the Commons Public Administration Committee says.

The government defends its housing benefit cap as it emerges a Labour-controlled London council is trying to house its families 160 miles away.

Voters in California will be asked if they want to abolish the death penalty this November, after a proposal gathered more than 500,000 signatures.

Government surveillance has not kept up with sites like Twitter and Facebook and new laws are needed, a former GCHQ chief says.

The government's plan to save £2.6bn by scrapping scores of quangos is based on "incomplete and imprecise" figures, an influential committee of MPs says.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemns Sudan's bombardment of a border area in an escalating dispute with South Sudan.

The pharmaceutical company Novartis is challenging the use of a cheaper alternative to its drug Lucentis for a common cause of loss of vision.

Subordinate members of meerkat troops are the best problem-solvers, say scientists who set the sociable creatures tasks to test their intelligence.

Does Chongqing miss scandal-tainted Bo Xilai?

Dutch feel the pinch in eurozone debt crisis

A university in England is setting up the world's first research centre to look at tourism to places of disaster and violence.

One victim of teenage domestic abuse tells her story

Trade unions and the oil and gas industry body join forces to warn of the dangers of EU interference in the North Sea.