Technology

An online predator who led an American girl and her father to take their own lives has been jailed for at least 20 years after the UK's largest "catfishing" case.

Robots could sit in the seats of absent children in school - to allow the pupils to access lessons from a "safe space", a former children's commissioner has said.

Parts of Antarctica are turning green more quickly than previously thought, leaving scientists "shocked" at the impact of climate change in the region.

Tickets to outer space have gone on sale for two would-be astronauts in China. 

The Tasmanian tiger, a wolf-like marsupial that once stalked the forests of Tasmania, could be brought back from extinction after a team of US and Australian researchers claimed a series of scientific breakthroughs.

A new rule that will force businesses to make it easier for customers to cancel unwanted subscriptions and memberships is to be introduced in the US.

A meteorite four times the size of Mount Everest may have helped life to thrive after it smashed into Earth, research suggests.

Archaeologists have discovered a secret tomb at the Treasury monument in Petra, Jordan - one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

The first UK trial of a rigid sail that can be fitted on commercial ships to reduce their carbon footprint is under way in the Irish Sea.