A man who stabbed his girlfriend to death when she broke up with him, then claimed it was a suicide pact, is jailed for her murder.

A charity appeals for help to identify a man whose body washed up along the Dorset coast six years ago.

Virgin Galactic is to look at carrying instruments on board one of its spacecraft to gather data on climate change.

A handful of violent and degrading attacks on disabled people have provoked outrage among the press and public. But are they isolated cases or one end of a spectrum of intimidation and violence that many disabled people encounter?

A new camera designed with a curved detection surface allows imaging devices to see as animals do.

Actress Dame Elizabeth Taylor is 'fine' and a hospital stay is a 'precautionary' measure, her publicist has said.

Fresh insight into the cause of the neurological disorder Rett Syndrome is uncovered in an Edinburgh University study.

A childhood dream is realised for one of the archers chosen to represent Britain in Beijing.

Normally fragile and brittle silicon chips are made to bend and fold by scientists in the US.

What do you do when you are two years old - and tower over all your playmates?

Virgin Galactic shows off the final design of the launch system that will take fare-paying passengers into space.

A Cheltenham dental practice is celebrating winning a case against Lacoste for the right to use a crocodile as its logo. But is this a suitable emblem for a service which wishes to emphasise trust and hygiene?

A few minutes surfing the internet results in success for a little County Antrim girl with scoliosis.

A teenager is spending Christmas Day on top of one of the highest mountains in the world.

Scientists are investigating new procedures to ease osteoporosis. Some patients are in daily pain.

A council apologises for comments made in a letter to the family of a girl waiting for a spine operation.

The MP for Stone questions highway bosses after several accidents on the same roundabout.

Illegible words on church headstones could be read once more thanks to a scan technology developed in the US.

A hospital apologises to a man who became paralysed following spinal surgery when he was a teenager.

The identity of a woman who was killed, dumped in an Oxfordshire field and set on fire remains a mystery.