The Iraq War drama 'The Hurt Locker' locked up six Academy Awards on Sunday night, including best picture.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Author Michael Lewis, known for exposing the culture of excess at Solomon Brothers with his book "Liar's Poker," says Wall Street

Judge agrees with human rights watchdog that British National party's rewritten criteria for joining are still racistThe British National party (BNP)

Lib Dem leader condemns bankers as 'Scargills in pinstripes' and says electorate, not him, will decide who is next PMNick Clegg is to call for a 10% t

Dozens killed as two suicide bombers try to blow up military convoy passing busy marketA bombing in the eastern city of Lahore has killed at least 43

Neighbours were oblivious that recluse who froze to death in her home was first black woman on South Carolina legislatureThe neighbours knew Juanita G

Moscow signs agreement that will see Russia help construct up to 20 atomic plantsIndia and Russia today signed a nuclear co-operation agreement, which

Winnie Mandela claims 'he let us down' story in Evening Standard was 'fictitious' but paper stands by storyNelson Mandela's ex-wife has denied critici

Report for United States Bankruptcy Court says City law firm approved off balance sheet transactions that disguised true state of Lehman Brothers' fin

Political director Charlie Whelan says phone bank operation is largest ever undertaken by a British unionBritain's largest union is mobilising its mem

Socialists and Greens expect significant gains in regional elections as ruling party blamed for poor economic situationNicolas Sarkozy faces an embarr

Head of supreme council says Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law group is likely victor based on preliminary resultsThe political grouping headed by Iraq's

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A radically minimalist trend has hit Paris fashion week – and three British designers are leading the charge. By Jess Cartner-MorleyIt is 10 o'cl

Michael Moore, Liberal Democrat spokesman on international development, will be live online on the Katine Chronicles blog at 11am (GMT) on Tuesday, 16

For many people, "chemical" is still a dirty word – but wooden trousers, dream creams and mussel muscles are coming to the rescue

To celebrate Pi day this weekend, New Scientist serves up some lesser-known facts about the famous ratio, from appearances in nature to unusual poetry

The world's most intelligent invertebrates can be tricked by HD images, letting us study their personalities and behaviour

When the surge of plug-in vehicles hits the streets over the next few years, how will our electricity grids cope?

Instead of striving to eliminate imperfection physicists would do better to inject a bit of randomness into their quantum devices

We'd better make sure that we send a big enough bomb to stop an incoming asteroid – if we don't, the space rock could reassemble

Ancient waterways buried beneath Australia's Simpson desert have been traced – even though massive dunes make remote sensing impossible

See the springier legs and more sensitive hands developed for a toddler-sized robot that will test theories about how flesh-and-blood children learn

In three states, alternatives to the scientific consensus on global warming must be taught – and there seem to be links to efforts to teach creationis

Could forcing computer owners to keep their machines up to date with the latest security software help stop cybercrime in its tracks?