Investors are taking an interest in the lives of those at the bottom of the economic heap but can they help those in need and make money?

Forty years on from the world debut of personal computing, those involved ask could more have been achieved?

There's more to motorways than tarmac, tailbacks and tepid coffee served at tourist prices. To prove it a lecturer took a minibus of students on a day-long tour of the M1.

The trouble with America's $700bn bail-out is the "B" word itself - bail-out, say advertising chiefs. Branding expert Jonathan Gabay considers how a little creative story-telling could have saved a whole lot of financial turmoil.

Science writer and broadcaster Sue Nelson reports from the BA Science Festival in Liverpool.

Samiya Yuusf Omar's amazing journey from war-ravaged Somalia to the Olympic Games.

Experts investigating pressures on childhood want to hear from young people and their parents.

Most adults in a UK survey believe children are being damaged by commercialism.

The newspapers assess the increasing preference for shopping online for post-Christmas bargains.

How Big British brand names are tapping into the children's market via the classroom.

Scientist assess the possibility of building giant solar panels in space in order to meet the planet's rising energy needs.

People are more interested in reality TV and the world of celebrities than the real world and the challenges it faces.

Theatre critics were largely won over by Lee Mead's debut in Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat, while others were less convinced.

A City lawyer explains the toll the job can take as a review of lawyers' work-life balance is launched.

It was the decade of Thatcher, yuppies and chunky mobile phones. But for some of you the decade meant many different things.

A reality TV show promising a donated kidney as a prize turns out to be a hoax, but ruffles plenty of feathers.

Why we should get out of our cars to watch GB's top road race

Children are banned from a church service because a graphic film leading to the crucifixion is being shown.

It's big business, but who really objects to spending money on spoiling their mum on Mother's Day? Only the woman who invented it.

A vicar from Surrey writes a book offering money-saving tips to couples planning to get married.