When a player has scored only three Test centuries in 12 years of international cricket, he is entitled to enjoy his moment in the spotlight, and Marlon Samuels was not about to waste his.

From dustbusters to travel mugs, be prepared for the road ahead

The Board of Control for Cricket in India have asked for footage from a television station alleging that spot fixing is occurring in the Indian Premier League.

A rare Leica camera was sold to an anonymous buyer for a world record £1.7m at auction in Vienna yesterday.

Are you always disappointed with your holiday snaps?

A bankruptcy court judge has approved Kodak's plan to pay up to $13.5m (£8.3m) in bonuses to retain key managers as it reorganises under bankruptcy protection.

Progress is a wonderful thing. Once you might have taken photographs and shown them to family or shared them on Facebook. The Descriptive Camera, however, the latest in prototype design, doesn't give you a picture, instead it gives you a description of what is in the frame.

There is no point getting too worked up about Formula One in Bahrain – questions of morality do not apply to multi-millionaires

Michael Woodford, the sacked chief executive of Olympus who blew the whistle on a $1.7bn (£1.1bn) accounting scandal, yesterday urged the company to mend its ways at its annual shareholders' meeting, and demanded to know why he had been ousted.

This breeding ground for new stars, captured as never before by the Hubble Space Telescope, is in the heart of the Tarantula nebula some 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud – a small satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way.

Unwitting participants in a scientific study were egged on to inflict pain on contestants in a fake TV show

Twenty years ago, no broadsheet harangue on "the state of the novel" could fail to include some slight mention of Christopher Burns. The Flint Bed (1989) brought him a Whitbread shortlisting. There followed a terrific alpinist's epic, The Condition of Ice (1990), and a slightly lower-key Egyptian drama, In The Houses of the West (1993). Come the mid-1990s, the books began to dry up, and A Division of the Light has the distinction of being his first novel for a decade and a half.

Helmet-mounted HD cameras are capable of recording riders'face-on thrills, which is why extreme sports fans love them. Will Coldwell gets a heads up

The founder of a TV camera company whose specialist equipment is used at everything from top sporting events to the reality show Big Brother is celebrating its £8m sale.