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Humanity needs to take 'giant leap'
Humanity needs a project with the vision and budget of the Apollo space programme if it is going to make the necessary giant leap towards sustainability.
School Report Sports Day radio highlights
As part of School Report Sports Day, a radio show was broadcast for students to call in to "talk sport" with other School Reporters from around the world.
Reprieve aims to expose torture
Human rights charity Reprieve recruits a team of volunteers to speak to the British Pakistani community and uncover evidence of torture by Pakistani police.
On your marks, it's School Report Sports Day
School Report's first "School Report Sports Day" coincided with the football World Cup, tennis at Wimbledon and school sports days across the UK.
Airport security change on hold
The Department for Transport delays plans to bring in hand searches at UK airports because of concerns from a Sikh group.
School Report Sports Day as it happens
A minute-by-minute account of School Report Sports Day, involving hundreds of school children around the UK - and beyond.
Technology gets disabled-friendly
More and more mainstream manufacturers seem to be taking account of customers with disabilities.
The rules of speech crime
Calling someone a "coconut" might sound harmless but it has landed one woman with a criminal conviction. So what qualifies as a speech crime?
'Our time has gone' says Colin Jackson
Young journalists report from the European Athletics Trials and UK Championships in Birmingham.
Hysterical, deluded and thoroughly English
Why do English football fans never learn to manage expectations?
Profile: G8
Key facts about the group of leading industrialised countries
Radiohead surprise festival fans
Radiohead's Thom Yorke surprises fans with a set at Glastonbury, but stand-in headliners Gorillaz struggle to impress.
How do you headline Glastonbury?
Gorillaz are preparing to headline at the festival on Friday after U2 pulled out. How can an act make the most of topping the bill at the biggest event in the UK music calendar?
It's payback time for home generation
An effective subsidies system is needed in order to convince people to generate electricity in their own homes.
Farmer defends bacon substitute
Coventry farmer Rod Adlington insists he is reacting to demand from traders in trying to give Muslims a taste of pork by producing bacon-style rashers from halal-slaughtered turkeys.
The Full Story: PM's questions
All the action, reaction and analysis in video and text as David Cameron faced prime minister's questions.
10 ways football haters can tell it's World Cup time
National flags are everywhere. Watercooler chat is of little else. And then there are all those e-mails inviting you to join the office sweepstake. It's not hard to spot the signs, even for a football refusenik.
The Full Story: PM's questions
All the action, reaction and analysis in video and text as David Cameron faces his second question time as prime minister.
Big Brother through the years
As Channel 4 announces it is axing Big Brother, a look back at highlights from the show's 10 series.
Workplaces gear up for World Cup
As a survey reveals 32% of England fans would skip work to watch a World Cup game, what are businesses doing to avoid disruption during the 2010 tournament?


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