The BBC's Dougal Shaw checks out a digital carpet, that can be pre-programmed with a visual display, or take in data from the internet live.

The government raised a record £23.9bn in additional tax this year as a result of a crackdown on tax avoidance, HM Revenue and Customs says.

Loneliness among the over-65s could be tackled by training more older people to use the internet, according to a think tank.

A senior member of France's opposition UMP party admits there were "anomalies" in the accounts of Nicolas Sarkozy's 2012 presidential campaign.

A Chinese ship has rammed a Vietnamese boat near a controversial oil rig in the South China Sea, Vietnamese officials say, amid ongoing tensions.

A vast peatland covering an area the size of England is discovered in a remote part of Congo-Brazzaville, scientists report.

Lloyds Banking Group is to float a 25% stake in its TSB business, which has 631 High Street branches, on the London stock market.

UKIP has "no solutions to the problems to the 21st Century", former prime minister Tony Blair says.