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BBC News - The language of Avatar revealed
It all started with what Professor Paul Frommer now describes as a "fateful e-mail."
BBC News - Information goes out to play
"Serious information used to be relayed in words, graphs and charts - pictures were just pretty window dressing. That's all changing, says David McCandless."
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Comedy Twitter feed lands TV deal
"A Twitter feed featuring pearls of wisdom from a 73-year-old father could become a family comedy on US TV."
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israel 'understated' Gaza deaths
An Israeli human rights group says many more Palestinian civilians were killed in the Israeli military's campaign in Gaza than the army admits.
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Quantum computer slips onto chips
Researchers have devised a penny-sized silicon chip that uses photons to run Shor's algorithm - a well-known quantum approach - to solve a maths problem.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Thousands call for Turing apology
Thousands of people have signed a Downing Street petition calling for a posthumous government apology to World War II code breaker Alan Turing.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israeli troops 'ill-treat kids'
A former Israeli military commander has told the BBC that Palestinian youngsters are routinely ill-treated by Israeli soldiers while in custody, reports the BBC' s Katya Adler from Jerusalem and the West Bank.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israel dismisses Gaza allegations
A group of soldiers who took part in Israel's assault in Gaza say widespread abuses were committed against civilians under "permissive" rules of engagement.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Oldest UK television discovered
Britain's oldest working television has been uncovered in a house in London.
BBC - Earth News - Ant mega-colony takes over world
A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered.
BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | North East Wales | Aqueduct crowned world 'wonder'
A 200-year-old aqueduct near Wrexham has been crowned as one of the heritage "wonders" of the world.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Michael Jackson: Highs and lows
Michael Jackson has died at the age of 50. The pop star was due to begin a comeback tour with a series of concerts in London in July.
Here are the ups and downs of the singer's lifetime in pop.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Spain reigns in crusading judges
For more than a decade, a drab, beige building in central Madrid has been the global destination of choice for anyone wanting to file allegations of genocide, torture and crimes against humanity.
BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | Charity relay sets world record
More than 1,500 people took part in a record-breaking run in east London to raise money to help children in Gaza.
BBC NEWS | Health | Sisters 'make people happy'
Sisters spread happiness while brothers breed distress, experts believe.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israel FM rejects Annapolis deal
Israel's new ultra-nationalist foreign minister has said it is not bound by a US-sponsored 2007 agreement to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians.
BBC NEWS | Americas | Spain court mulls US torture case
Spanish judges have agreed to consider charging six former US officials with providing legal justification for alleged torture at Guantanamo Bay.
BBC NEWS | UK | 'Most religious leaders are fools'
The author and playwright Hanif Kureishi was born in London in 1954. He is the author of The Buddha of Suburbia, Intimacy and Something to Tell You. His first play, Soaking the Heat, was staged in 1976, and My Beautiful Laundrette , for which he wrote the screenplay, was released in 1985.
He was appointed CBE in 2007, for services to literature and drama. Here he briefly tells BBC News his thoughts about religion.
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