Beta mongoose flaunts new face

Review  Ubuntu fans, fire up your virtual machines. The beta release of Ubuntu 10.10 is here. Maverick Meerkat, as this release is known, is actually several weeks ahead of the original schedule, and that means Ubuntu 10.10 is on track for its final release October 10.…

Metropolitan Police Authority member backs Welsh MP Chris Bryant on call for more information over tabloid newspaper's phone hacking claims.

Twelve football hooligans who took part in what a judge said was the worst destruction Manchester has suffered "since the Blitz" are sentenced.

Several "potential victims of human trafficking" have been rescued in raids on suspected brothels in Belfast, police say.

Music to watch monsters go by

Love Doctor Who, love the theme music - this is hardwired into the DNA of most Brits.…

Tributes are paid to a "dedicated" and "very valued" surgeon from the Wirral who died while snorkelling in the Maldives.

Un-Flash eyes world of Google

Steve Jobs forbids you from building iPhone applications with a language other than Objective C, C, or C++. If that other language is Adobe Flash. What if it's not Adobe Flash? Are you still forbidden?…

A former boarding school head teacher is found guilty of more than 50 counts of sexually abusing and beating boys at schools in Norfolk and Suffolk.

Hunting 'mugu' in America

A Nigerian man has been sentenced to more than 12 years in US prison for orchestrating an advance payment scam that bilked victims out of more than $1.3m.…

A 74-year-old Northamptonshire churchwarden dies when she is knocked to the ground as she herds cattle.

Edinburgh's transport leader admits speeding but said he still believes a 20mph zone would be a good idea.

Two women who were arrested after trying to take a dead relative on to a plane at Liverpool John Lennon Airport will not face charges.

Gay Fun your life must be...

An Oz primary school head is taking a bit of stick after insisting that kiddies should not follow the exact letter of Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.…

Double European champion Mo Farah announces his withdrawal from the Commonwealth Games because of fatigue.

Police carry out two days of raids after a man was attacked with a power drill in North Lanarkshire.

One of Parliament's most popular members

England, Scotland and Northern Ireland all kick off their Euro 2012 qualifying campaigns as Wales lose their opening match in Montenegro.

The justice minister David Ford says that a clerical error had no bearing in the decision to allow the McDermott brothers to return to Donagh.

The former Liberal Democrat MP Sir Cyril Smith has died aged 82, his family and party confirm.

Can you handle the truth?

In the past seven days, Reg Hardware reviewed many products from the worlds of consumer electronics and mobile communications.…

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