Building on their vision of 'Convergence' as the future of computing, Canonical - the creators of open-source OS Ubunutu -  have launched a new Indiegogo campaign to create the Edge: a smartphone 'for the future' that will double up as desktop PC.

One sector sprinting ahead in global race is our booming automotive industry, says Cameron

Plans for a full touchscreen dash board would give iOS controls to everything from heating to radio

10-year Government and industry initiative expected to secure at least 30,000 jobs

Car production slowed last month after accelerating ahead in April.

Fiat moving its global headquarters to Britain is just one sign of a renaissance

Tom Sykes claimed double victory at Donington Park to move to within four points of the lead in the superbike World Championship.

In the roll-call of student summer reading certain volumes stand out, including Desmond Morris's body language phenomenon The Naked Ape and Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull. To those can be added a volume by Robert M Pirsig that snuggled its way into every hitchhiker's hand-crocheted body satchel. Unlike Bach, whose books were like being hit with a wiffle bat full of pot-pourri, Pirsig is the real deal. Born in 1928, this precocious university student was eventually expelled for studying too hard, after growing bewildered by the choice of multiple hypotheses in his chosen field, biochemistry. Overwhelmed by the limitations of science, he tackled Eastern philosophy instead, spending time in India before returning to a US college.

It is as vital for the European Union as it is for the UK that this country remains within Europe, the chief executive of the London Stock Exchange Xavier Rolet declared today.

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Some 150,000 Japanese cars owned by UK motorists have been recalled after a fault was discovered with their front passenger seat airbags.

A father and son were mistakenly shot by a gunman in a revenge attack, the Old Bailey heard.

The African conglomerate Lonrho suffered an underlying loss of £3.4m after a year beset by fishing problems and late deliveries of tractors.

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