This year's dreadful weather has cost rural Britain at least one billion pounds in lost revenue, according to an investigation by Countryfile on BBC One.

A study of rocks at an old French A-bomb test site in the Pacific has led a team of scientists to conclude that early Mars was not so warm and wet, as many argue.

Two men are found trying to board a flight in India with a rare primate species hidden in their underwear.

Computer pioneer and wartime codebreaker Alan Turing has been commemorated in an edition of Monopoly based on his life.

The government is to fight an EU ruling that the UK must raise VAT on energy efficiency products from 5% to 20%.

New computer models suggest there could be many more habitable planets than previously thought.

Nasa's Curiosity rover has taken a self-portrait on the Martian surface, using a camera on its robotic arm.