A technique to image living cells in action, in an unprecedented mix of detail in both time and space, is described by researchers.

The largest flood defence exercise ever held in the UK is due to get under way - and will last all week, involving about 10,000 people.

An imam retracts statements about evolution and the right of Muslim women not to cover their hair after death threats were made against him.

A team of Scots design experts are to travel to India to digitally record one of the country's most historic landmarks.

Conservationists rescue a two-month-old Mediterranean monk seal, one of the most endangered marine mammals.

Statistics obtained by the BBC show that the Cycling City project in Bristol has fallen short of its target.

Spanish motorists have had to ease off the accelerator, confronted with a new speed limit of 110km/h on main roads.

The upheaval wrought by the 22 February earthquake in Christchurch, NZ, is illustrated in new radar imagery from the Japanese satellite Alos.