The body of an aristocrat who died nearly 90 years ago has been exhumed in the hope that it will help combat a future flu pandemic.

The BBC's Kevin Connolly considers the evidence against the late army scientist said to be behind a lethal 2001 anthrax attack.

Architects claim a new primary will be so energy efficient that the children's body heat will keep it warm.

A summit looks at how government targets to make new houses "zero carbon" by 2016 can be met.

Getting rid of unwanted stuff can be a pleasure - and decluttering offers the chance to acquire yet more stuff to take its place, says Lucy Kellaway.

Ferrari's Felipe Massa wins the Turkish Grand Prix ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen.

A weekly guide to the 2008 US presidential election, in words and pictures.

Burmese migrants who survived a lorry journey that suffocated 54 others to death are jailed in Thailand.

More than 50 Burmese illegal migrants suffocate in the back of a lorry taking them into Thailand, police say.

There is no "magic bullet" solution to meeting the ambitious target of making all new homes "zero-carbon".

The first section of the Forth Road Bridge's new dehumidification system is switched on.

Tottenham win a hard-fought contest to consign the Premier League's bottom side Derby to their 19th defeat this season.

A ward at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital is evacuated after a chemical spillage.

A £4.7m project to halt corrosion on cables on the Severn Bridge will get under way in February 2008.

Air-tight seals and temporary doors are suggested as ways to prevent council homes flooding.

It seems incredible that the technology that went into building the first successful satellite 50 years ago can now be found lying around the average house. You could even build one yourself, as Paul Rubens explains below. Fancy having a go?

Wi-fi users could be at risk as researchers reveal another attack on the security built into networks.

Can long-held dreams of sending humans to Mars ever be realised?

Nasa traces the source of an air leak in space shuttle Endeavour's cabin.

Our featured photographer Lewis Bush's photographs of a nuclear fallout shelter in Switzerland.