Full HD desktop replacement with plenty of poke

Review  Stylish and powerful, the new 18.4in Aspire Ethos 8943G will appeal to those looking for a desktop replacement that doesn’t hold back on performance. Each of the four cores on the Core i7-720QM purr along at 1.6GHz, while ATI’s Mobility Radeon HD 5650 is on hand should you want to indulge in a bit of gaming. Throw in a Blu-ray drive, and the cost of the components starts to rise, pushing the laptop’s price well over the £1,000 mark.…

Children's heart surgery should remain suspended at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital where four babies died, a report says.

The UK Independence Party wins its court battle against having to pay back all of a £367,697 "impermissible donation".

Phone-home copy protection

Android now comes with an API allowing applications to phone home to check for a licence when launched, locking out pirates and anyone with an unreliable data connection.…

A Sussex vicar is found guilty of carrying out hundreds of marriages to bypass immigration law.

David Cameron says it is important to "speak frankly" after criticism of his comments about Pakistan's record on tackling terrorism.

Strong sports line-up. And golf

Sky is launching a 3D TV channel, Europe's first, on October 1.…

Last stocks of RN hard stuff offered to landlubbers

Those of you with a taste for rum and 600 quid to spare might like to uncork a bottle of Black Tot "Last Consignment" British Royal Naval Rum, lovingly decanted from the official stocks held by the Senior Service since sailors' final rum ration in 1970.…

Convicted serial killer Peter Tobin is questioned by police in Edinburgh in connection with serious sexual crimes.

Hackers feast on financial sector security mistakes

Cybercrooks continue to be a menace to corporate security, with hackers and malware authors collectibly responsible for 85 per cent of all stolen data.…

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Up to 60,000 people working in the public sector in Scotland could lose their jobs, according to an independent review commissioned by ministers.

Security researcher Ron Bowes tells BBC News why he collected and published the personal details of 100m Facebook users.

A "ground-breaking" Court of Appeal judgement removes the protection previously given to thousands of people in divorce proceedings.

A couple who left a three-year-old boy in their care with more than 70 injuries are jailed for life.

'Nothing personal'

The “pay-load” data collected by Google’s Street View cars did not slurp up “meaningful personal details”, the UK’s privacy watchdog concluded today.…

Can you wash it, drop it, stop your patients from stealing it?

Next year, 500 doctors and nurses in Victoria hospitals, will trial the use of iPads.…

About £10,000 in hidden cash is recovered from an Italian man's underwear as he is about to fly out from Belfast International Airport.

Rubbish - priests always cover their knees

The Vatican's stripey knickerbocker-clad Swiss Guards have launched a crack down on scantily-clad tourists in and around the Holy See.…

Er yes, nearly all the happy campers did work for us

A cackling Phil Booth, No2ID National Coordinator, writes to tell us that six months after he first pestered the Identity & Passport Service about its quotes from ID card-toting happy campers in its publicity material, it has confessed - um yes, all but one of those quoted worked for the government.…

More powerful than the original?

Daryl Brach, known as pfaffen online, has built a scale model of the Cray-1 supercomputer to house a PC.…

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