Today:Early fog in the far southwest clears quickly. Most areas stay dry with sunshine and variable cloud, though northern and northeastern regions may see isolated showers. Light winds overall, ...

“The British are coming,” trumpeted Chariots Of Fire screenwriter Colin Welland infamously at the 1982 Oscars. In truth “the British” were already there. They’d been making movies for over a century, ...

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When amateur player Alex O'Brien unexpectedly won an online poker tournament, little did she know that she'd be pitted against one of the game's most controversial players. A stellar team of poker ...

Sara Rigby: Hello and welcome to the Science Focus Podcast. I'm Sara Rigby, online assistant at BBC Science Focus magazine. In this week's episode, I'm talking to Dr Douglas Vakoch, president of ...

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On June 26 2006 Paul Heiney, the broadcaster and journalist, was sailing back to Britain from Rhode Island following a single-handed passage across the North Atlantic when the satellite phone rang and ...

There are currently concerns about the illiteracy levels of the world population. In fact the literacy rates have increased steadily over the past few decades, although most of these changes have been ...