The controversial mass culling of animals to control the spread of foot-and-mouth disease should there be another outbreak may be unnecessary, researchers suggest.

Wild chimpanzees use at least 66 distinct gestures to communicate with each other, according to scientists.

Jaguar plans to build a £700,000 petrol-electric hybrid supercar in the UK, in partnership with Formula 1 team Williams F1.

Shifts in the climate over the past three decades are linked to a 5.5% decline in global wheat production, a study suggests.

London's Natural History Museum begins the repatriation of the skeletal remains of 138 indigenous people taken from the Torres Strait Islands in the 19th Century.

Japan's prime minister tells a power company to halt operations at another nuclear plant due to fears an earthquake could trigger a new crisis.

Successive reviews into the University of East Anglia climate e-mail hack cast no doubt on the basic picture of global warming, the government says.

Children living near nuclear power plants in Britain are no more likely to develop leukaemia than those living elsewhere, experts have found.