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A video of a golden eagle snatching a child in Canada that has gone viral online is an elaborate hoax, the clipmakers admit.

Rumours that circulated on Twitter that there was evidence that Osama Bin Laden was a fan of The IT Crowd sitcom were an elaborate new media hoax. Here comedian Graham Linehan explains how he organised the ruse.

Find out which celebrities have seen rumours of their death whip up a frenzy on social networks.

Suzanne Goldenberg: An ambitious plan from the Canadians seemed too good to be true - and it was, as the Yes Men strike again

This was the final public message recorded by the late Sir Arthur C Clarke, which closed the global launch of the International Year of Planet Earth, at UNES...

BBC Science writer Martin Redfern investigates plans to build and connect 3,000 radio telescopes across a continent together to help unlock the secrets of the universe.

Face recognition technology can be used to gain access to a person's private data, according to a new study.

Spectacles that merge the real world and cyberspace have been demonstrated by NTT and Olympus.

A new service called NearLondon will offer a replica of the capital's busiest shopping streets with digital shopfronts.

Hundreds attend an inaugural Wikipedia conference in Mumbai as the online encyclopaedia seeks to spread its influence across India. The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan was there.

Detailed 3D models of famous landmarks have been recreated from images uploaded to online photo sharing sites such as Flickr.

Oxford University is asking for help deciphering ancient Greek texts written on fragments of papyrus found in Egypt.

The Large Hadron Collider collaboration begins a "citizen science" project to tap volunteers' computing power to simulate particle collisions.

A film made up entirely of clips uploaded to YouTube and directed by Kevin Macdonald is almost ready for its Sundance Film Festival premiere.

Millions of internet users across the EU could eventually join the fight against cyber crime, Europol's director tells peers.

Eli Pariser's book The Filter Bubble suggests internet users are seing their own views reflected online. Click tested the theory.