Good weather for August? Don’t get your hopes up.
The curtain is about to fall on the month of July, meaning that we are about to enter our last summer month of the year. But what will August bring?
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Passengers on a plane at Manchester Airport have been evacuated following reports of a man carrying a bomb on their flight bound for Marrakech.
“A remarkable woman who got remarkable stories” – the BBC’s director general Tony Hall joins many others in paying tribute to the life and work of Sue Lloyd-Roberts, who has died of cancer.
A protest is held outside a popular London nightclub after allegations of discrimination from a group of four black and mixed-race women.
Hollywood film director Wes Craven, best known for his horror films A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Last House on the Left, and the Scream movies, dies aged 76.
The unrelenting tragedy of people trying to reach a better life is laid bare once again, as hundreds of people are feared to have died when two boats capsized off the coast of Libya.
Which Labour leadership candidate would print money? Who wants to build 2 million houses? Who thinks George Osborne might be right about running a surplus?
The curtain is about to fall on the month of July, meaning that we are about to enter our last summer month of the year. But what will August bring?
A powerful new weather satellite has just become operational, bringing amazingly detailed and frequent pictures of earth from space.
Moira Dixon is 53 and has just weeks to live. And although she says she feels “sad all the time”, her decision to “live in the now” has brought unexpected happiness.
Mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Prize winner who inspired the movie A Beautiful Mind, dies in an auto accident along with his wife in New Jersey.
Greens leader Natalie Bennett says she plans to build on the surge in party membership in the run-up to the general election, despite her failure to win the Holborn and St Pancras constituency.
As party leaders head to their local polling stations, millions of people take to Facebook and Twitter to let their friends know they have voted, encouraging others to do the same.
Things could be shaken up in the days to come in ways many of us won’t have forseen.
This year’s appeal for votes has been awash with negative tweets, viral YouTube clips and memes galore – but does it really mean social media has come of age for elections?
In the sparking of plate-welding and the hammering of rust-coloured sheet-steel, the old certainties are going down the slip, while the thought of the SNP coming to power has now become a possibility.