China's leader Xi Jinping is expected to put the seal later on its contribution to what will be the first UK nuclear power plant to be built in a generation.

A two-year-old Thai girl became the youngest person to be cryogenically frozen, preserving her brain moments after death in the hope that she will one day be brought back to life.

The first clinical trial injecting foetal stem cells into babies still in the womb has been announced.

An ancient African genome has been sequenced for the first time from a 4,500-year-old skull that was discovered in the highlands of Ethiopia.

Cristiano Ronaldo reveals the full extent of former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson's wrath inside the dressing room in an upcoming BBC documentary.

Scientists have discovered a species of ancient mammal that survived the event that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Bats provide a service worth an estimated US $1bn (£649m) globally by controlling pests on corn crops, a study has suggested.

Cristiano Ronaldo led Real Madrid will battle for supremacy with Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi.

A British Airways plane bound for London catches fire at Las Vegas airport, forcing the evacuation of 172 people on board on emergency slides.

A satellite image confirms that the main temple in the ancient city of Palmyra in northern Syria has been destroyed, the United Nations says.

Facebook has announced measures to tackle video piracy on its website.

A 10-year-old boy has caught a 220kg tuna off the coast of Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Some early adopters of a new Samsung phone have said the device's stylus suffers from a design flaw.

The World Health Organization is calling for "intensified action" to protect health workers treating people in crisis and conflict zone.

At least 80 people are killed Sunday in a string of Syrian government air strikes on a marketplace in Douma, a rebel-held town near Damascus

A group of "Facebook reporters" have been the main source of information from the enclaves of India and Bangladesh in the past few years.

Ofcom has backed a BBC Trust decision not to censure the BBC over using the word "pikey" in an edition of Top Gear.

A lone gunman opens fire inside a crowded movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, on Thursday evening, killing two people and injuring seven others before taking his own life.

A detail analysis of BBC on Greece debt crisis.

The BBC is to cut 1,000 jobs because of a £150m budget gap in its licence fee income.