The government's chief environment scientist calls for more openness in admitting the UK's cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are an illusion.

The Royal Mail launches the world's first "intelligent" stamp, the first to work with image recognition technology.

England's first city-wide lottery system aimed at solving the problem of allocating places at over-subscribed schools failed to give poorer children equal access to top schools, academics say.

The world is on the verge of a bed-bug pandemic, according to a report - how did the tiny biting insects come to pose such a threat?

Traffic management plans are being finalised across Scotland for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI.

Engineering manufacturing in Scotland is showing its best performance since 2006, according to the latest figures.

Unison Scotland members will discuss how to respond to a move by councils to impose a pay deal on 150,000 workers.

Gardeners are warned about the risk of Legionnaire's disease from compost after a pensioner developed the disease after handling compost.

Long-term use of bone-strengthening drugs may boost the risk of oesophageal cancer, a study suggests.

Prayers are said in Rathfriland after a six-year-old boy struck by a speedboat in County Down on Monday dies in hospital.

Former England captain David Beckham hopes to play for the LA Galaxy against Columbus Crew on 11 September.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has suspended the three Pakistan players accused of being part of a betting scam.

A senior civil servant at the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure says that job losses are inevitable because of the cuts it has to make

An ambulance paramedic put the life of a baby at risk by refusing to take the mother to hospital because they were on a break, a tribunal hears.

A British discount store is buying in Polo mints from Indonesia even though the same mints are being manufactured just a mile up the road in York.

A cheating husband murdered his wife after she found out about his infidelity within months of them getting married, a court hears.

In the latest in the BBC News Meet The Author interviews, Sir Terry Pratchett discusses I Shall Wear Midnight, the latest in his best-selling Discworld series.

A man sailing the sea in a bath tub, mud sculptures and an ugly fish who finds love - it's the week's weird and wonderful video stories in Newsbeat's Odd Box with Dominic Byrne.

A man and woman are arrested on suspicion of helping a disabled man from South Tyneside take his own life.

Thousands of Tube workers will strike next week as talks between London Underground bosses and two unions break down.