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Ever wonder why sometimes the video you’re watching over the internet stutters? Or why it takes an age for a web page to load? It doesn’t matter how flashy your computer is, or how many ...

Noah may have been able to persuade the animals to go in two by two but zoo keepers were faced with a much more disorderly bunch as they tried to carry out a census. Meerkats were among the most ...

He may be the most powerful Tory in the country, but even Boris Johnson is not above the rules of the road. Having faced criticism in the past for failing to wear a helmet when whizzing around th...

The pound climbed to a three-week high against both the dollar and euro today despite the Bank of England cutting rates to an historic low. The 50-point cut took the base rate to 1.5 per cent, the...

Workers at Nissan’s Sunderland factory today took the biggest jobs blow yet of the current crisis in the British car industry when 1,200 positions were cut. The toll includes 800 permanent ...

Millions of Britons are being ripped-off by their broadband providers after a report by the UK telecoms watchdog found that the majority of customers are getting less than half the broadband speed t...

Cardiff Blues hooker Gareth Williams will become only the fifth player to play 100 games for the side if he emerges from the bench against Magners League champions Leinster at RDS on Saturday.Since si...

THORNHILL, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Jan. 8, 2009) - OnX Enterprise Solutions Ltd., one of Canada's largest enterprise-class technology solution providers announced today it has opened an office in Winds...

British singer Cheryl Cole is quite upset with her friend Victoria Beckham, as she did not contact her when the news of her husband Mike Ashley's alleged affair broke.

Danny Welbeck is the great Mancunian hope at Old Trafford. Photograph: Phil Cole/Getty Images It is a photograph that never ceases to draw smiles from

.On the agenda today: Derby's shock win over Manchester United, the latest transfer rumours and a look forward to the weekend's Premier league matches including United v Chelsea.

Peter Moores . Strauss, who addressed the media for the first time since his appointment as Pietersen's successor, said it had been "a tough few weeks in all sorts of ways" but it was now important fo...

A stem cell emerging from rat bone marrow. By stimulating the release of stem cells after a heart attack, the healing process could be accelerated. Photograph: Imperial College London A groundbreaki...

WORKLESS children were “idling in the streets” and “tumbling about in the gutters”, wrote one observer in 1861 of the supposedly baleful effects of a reduction in the use of ch...

TWO months ago trade unionists rejoiced that 332 jobs had been saved at JCB, a maker of construction equipment, because 2,500 workers agreed to work fewer hours for less pay, although 178 had to go. T...

London - Japanese carmaker Nissan Thursday announced major job cuts at a plant in north-east England which accounts for the bulk of British car exports. Nissan said 1,200 jobs would go at its plant in...

British music retailer Zavvi said on Thursday that it was shutting 22 stores with the loss of 178 staff as Britain suffers from a deepening economic slowdown."Despite record consumer demand since Chri...

A meerkat investigates a clipboard during the annual animal count at London Zoo in London, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. A complete head count of every animal, insect and bird living at the zoo is to take p...

Sale make two changes from the side that beat Wasps with scrum-half Dwayne Peel replacing Richard Wigglesworth. Chris Jones takes over from flanker Jason White, with the former Scottish skipper sidel...

John Simpson hopes that taking the Commonwealth featherweight title will edge him closer to a shot at winning back the British title he lost in June. The 25-year-old lost the British crown to fellow ...