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Twitter executives will be requested to give evidence to MPs as debate continues to surround the use of injunctions.

Research carried out by Hewlett Packard and the University of California Santa Barbara has taken bold strides, discovering several key lessons about memristors, a phenomenas widely considered to be integral in the development of the next generation of electronics.

Politicians, not least in the USA and Europe, are espousing greener energy and advocating massive reductions in carbon emissions in the relatively near future, whilst doing little to allay the fears of a generally ill-informed public on a practical means to bring this energy policy about. An obvious practical means but the one most prolific in doomsday scenarios, is the development, expansion and more intensive use of nuclear power.

Read here the full text of Chancellor George Osborne's Budget speech to the House of Commons.

After most of the results were declared for America's 2010 Midterm Election last week, the Democrats won consolations whilst the Republicans, at first glance, have most to celebrate. The Republicans won back the Lower House, narrowly lost the Upper House and have a large majority of the State Governors. The real loser was President Obama who was not finding office too easy with majorities in both Houses, a majority that until the loss to the Republicans of Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts se....

On 14 October 2010, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Governor of California and former "Terminator" actor, was photographed on the steps of No. 10 Downing Street meeting his friend and British Prime Minister, David Cameron. Mr Cameron joked with the gathered reporters that the Governor would help to "terminate the budget deficit", before the pair turned and walked back into No 10. There is little doubt that the deficits of both the UK and California would be amongst the topics the two po...

BP Chief Executive, Tony Hayward has expressed his desire to find out the cause of the explosion on Deepwater Horizon whilst defending the safety record of his company during his tenure as its CEO.