As the PlayStation 4 goes on sale, five experts compare it to the Xbox One and ask what the launches mean for the public and games industry.

More than six tons of confiscated ivory including tusks, carvings and jewellery have been crushed in public in the US state of Colorado.

Doctor Who, JLS and the cast of EastEnders are among the highlights of this year's Children in Need, which hopes to raise more than £26m.

More endangered animal items were confiscated at the UK border in the year up to April 2013 than in any other year, the Home Office says.

The 100,000 most frail patients in England will be identified and given a named GP to coordinate their care.

Aid workers say the situation facing survivors of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines is bleak, a week after the storm tore into the country.

A fragile quantum memory state persists at room temperature for a record 39 minutes - overcoming a barrier to ultrafast computers.

Nationwide Building Society, the UK's largest mutual lender, reports a big rise in profits for the six months to the end of September.