Police forces will be remotely searching hard drives as Europe steps up the fight against hi-tech thieves.

About 150 pilot whales die in a mass stranding in a remote coastal area of the Australian island of Tasmania.

At least 10 people have died after a volcano erupted in a remote region of southern Colombia, the government confirms.

Animal wardens are trying to find out who has been dumping sick or dying dogs in a remote part of Berkshire.

A Scots scientist who invented a new way to help predict when volcanoes will erupt receives a major award.

A 32-year-old man is killed after his 4x4 vehicle leaves a remote rural West Lothian road.

More than a hundred teaching vacancies are being advertised in rural and remote parts of Scotland.

High in the Andes, in a remote corner of Bolivia, lies more than half the world's reserves of lithium, a mineral that is used in batteries that power both mobile phones and electric cars.

The BBC's Andres Schipani looks at whether a remote Bolivian town holds the key to the fate of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Lava flow from a volcanic explosion in Ethiopia's remote north-eastern Afar region has covered a record area, researchers say.

A group of Berkshire surgeons have returned from a remote valley in the Himalayas.

TV remote controls, bathroom taps and refrigerator doors are all hotspots for the common cold virus, experts warn.

One of Scotland's most remote island communities sets out to market its sheep as an international delicacy.

MovieMobz, a Brazilian cinema-oriented social networking site, is looking to bring its business model to the UK.

A mountain range, a remote peninsula and an island are earmarked funding aimed at regeneration and conservation.

Police say a dairy farmer murdered at his remote home in County Armagh earlier this week died in a "savage attack".

Detectives say they are treating as murder the death of a 45-year-old farmer at his remote home in County Armagh.

The recent influx of Poles to Britain is not the first - after the World War II thousands fled communist rule to seek sanctuary in the UK. Some ended up at a remote resettlement camp in Devon and never left.

An undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 hits a remote area of the South Pacific ocean, east of Tonga island.

The body of a 61-year-old woman is recovered by mountain rescue teams at a remote quarry.