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Cooler, marginal reefs don’t mind warmer water

While Austraia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef has been suffering bleaching and damage, the combined impact of warmer oceans agricultural runoff, a few thousand kilometers to the west, coral growth seems to be enjoying the changing climate.…

Hope for cheaper telecoms kit

University of Southampton and Penn State researchers have demonstrated a technique to embed electronics into optical fibres, which if commercialised would enable simpler and cheaper telecommuniations kit.…

Whip? Check. Dead horse? Check.

Movies studios are moving on the defunct Limewire, filing a complaint in a US Federal Court to take their cut from the company’s copyright infringments.…

At least nine people are killed in a car bomb attack on police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials say.

In Australia thousands of people living in the state of Queensland have been ordered to abandon their homes because of rising floodwaters.

Nearly a million migratory birds visit Kashmir's wetlands every year, but this time the severe winter has made it nearly impossible for them to find food.

England face a mammoth task to avoid a series whitewash after Azhar Ali's composed 157 keeps Pakistan in control of the third Test in Dubai.

Three Tibetans set fire to themselves in south-west China in an anti-Beijing protest, reports say, meaning 19 people have now self-immolated in a year.

We drill into the uphill battle ex-Playstation boss Hirai faces

Comment When Faultline first began following Sony in 2003, it was worth $36 billion on the stock market. At the time Apple was worth $9.8 billion and it was about to launch the iTunes Music Store. We said that Sony should buy Apple and put Steve Jobs in charge.…

India batsman Yuvraj Singh is undergoing treatment for cancer in the United States his physiotherapist confirms.

City of hope in the heart of the Taliban's spiritual homeland

The number of civilians killed and injured in the Afghan conflict has risen for the fifth year in a row, a UN report reveals.

Flooding in the Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales has forced thousands of families from their homes.

Australia's Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd warns Europe faces an "early grave" if it continues to ignore Asia's rise.

Searching for witches on a tropical island

More performance-tuning for your home and office

Part 3 I'm pleased to say that what with the relatively warm 2011 and our conservation efforts we had the lowest consumption of electricity and gas at home of any year yet, a bit over 1,500kWh ('units') of electricity and under 4,000kWh of gas. (A typical UK household is nearer 3,300kWh 'leccy and 18,000kWh gas.) With our solar PV exports we were just carbon-negative for power by my calculations.…

Seven England players and Ireland batsman Kevin O'Brien fail to attract bids at the Indian Premier League auction.

Sharp shooters for parties and protests

Product round-up You know that really annoying person who is videoing the gig with their camera phone to stick on Facebook when they get home? That's me. These days my TV is HD and my games console is HD, so it only makes sense that my phone – the device I use the most, day in and day out – should be HD too. Luckily, HD on smartphones is becoming more commonplace and so rather than judge these handsets on their mobile merits, this round-up focuses on their HD video camera performance.…

The number of civilians killed and injured in the Afghan conflict has risen for the fifth year in a row, a UN report reveals.

India's most populous state battles to boost poll turnouts