The energy engineering services group Cape has parachuted in a new chief executive days after a shock profits warning wiped nearly 40 per cent off its value.

The first public meeting to discuss controversial plans to position surface-to-air missiles on residential flats during the Olympics will be held tomorrow.

Hargreaves hit by Maltby delays

Still golden, after all these years, San Francisco's most celebrated landmark turned 75 at the weekend with a display of pomp, pageantry, and fireworks so extravagant that they could be seen from space.

It is the latest culinary invention to be hailed as the best thing since sliced bread: the non-stick ketchup bottle.

Google knew that software installed in its camera cars could capture and store the online data of millions of people, including emails, text messages and images, when it sent them out to photograph Britain’s streets, according to US authorities investigating the company.

Ancient institutions are in rude health for UK students

Richard Garner hears about plans for a ground-breaking new college.

With the news that the inventor of the remote control, Eugene Polley, has died, couch potatoes around the globe have mourned his passing.

One of Google’s most senior executives issued a stark warning tonight that the power of the internet to free some of the world’s most oppressed people risks being overturned by autocratic governments who seek to “Balkanise” the web by controlling what can be accessed.

Google's search engine is designed to be a gateway to whatever destination website you choose.

If you ever needed an example of why the insurance industry gets it so wrong so often Homeserve's chief executive Richard Harpin provided it yesterday. Some 94 per cent of Homeserve's customers are satisfied with the service, he declared. Why, then, has the group has found itself in such a pickle?

Outlook If you ever needed an example of why the insurance industry gets it so wrong so often HomeServe's chief executive Richard Harpin provided it yesterday. Some 94 per cent of HomeServe's customers are satisfied with the service, he declared.

Rocket launch sees beginning of a new era for space travel