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Spacecraft could one day navigate through the cosmos using a particular type of dead star as a kind of GPS, German scientists believe.

Why do so many apes in zoos develop heart disease?

New footage shows the top of The Shard building as the finishing touches are made to the building.

Baroness Warsi accuses Labour of trying to make political capital out of the news that a woman suffered 40% burns when petrol ignited as she was decanting it in her kitchen.

A suspected fuel thief being tracked by a Wiltshire Police helicopter tried to avoid detection by on-board thermal imaging cameras by hiding in manure.

The Titanic's journey to the bottom of the ocean

A former head of the KGB's foreign intelligence branch, Leonid Shebarshin, has apparently shot himself dead aged 77, Russian prosecutors say.

At least one ticket - bought in Maryland - is a winner in the $640m (£400m) Mega Millions lottery, officials say, after the biggest jackpot in history.

Osama Bin Laden fathered four children while on the run, two of them delivered in government hospitals, the wife who bore them says.

Two men who sent suspect packages to Celtic manager Neil Lennon and two others are convicted of plotting to cause severe injury.

Labour leader Ed Miliband reveals details of meetings and dinners he has had with donors who have given more than £7,500 to the party.

Four paintings worth $1m (£625,000) stolen from a New York gallery are recovered in Germany 24 years after the crime.

Rules on fuel tanker drivers' hours on the road are temporarily relaxed to help transport supplies into filling stations, as Unite says there will not be a drivers' strike before Easter.

Canadian singer Michael Buble is in the running for a Sony Radio Academy Award for his music show on Magic 105.4.

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The head of an experiment that appeared to show subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light resigns from his post.

A doctor who failed to tell his police and NHS employers about his manslaughter conviction acted dishonestly, a watchdog has found.

One crimefighter confronted another in this video of a traffic incident. A man was pulled over dressed as Batman in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Former Labour MP George Galloway says he won the Bradford West by-election because he stands for those who are "alienated" by modern politics.

Education Secretary Michael Gove has suggested a proposed new Catholic school in Twickenham should limit Catholic pupils to 50% of its intake.