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Planes are firing salt into clouds in a bid to prevent rain after record floods left dozens dead.

The hydrogen-powered drone which could revolutionise the travel industry.

Emma's long wait for a life-saving call. Emma has type 1 diabetes and is waiting for a kidney and pancreas transplant.

Mitch Brogan wrote predictions with his grandfather in 1991 for what life would be like in 2020.

Find out how to survive if you go behind in the wheel in a country where driving can be chaotic.

Residents in rural Colorado and Nebraska report seeing scores of blinking, noisy drones over their homes.

This new lifestyle trend which involves no food, no internet, no phone and minimal talking is becoming strangely popular.

A newly published personal letter reveals the poet was glad he never married teacher Emily Hale.

Some people are young, just not you.

A trial where hydrogen is added to natural gas raises hopes of a low-carbon heating revolution.

Superblocks is a radical plan to reclaim the streets from the noise and pollution of traffic.

A young activist went out to work and was never seen again. It would take five years of fighting to find out what happened.

Mountaineer Jamie Clarke wanted to bond with his son. So he took him on a trek across Mongolia.

A new study in India reveals how mothers-in-law impact mobility and the decisions of their son’s wives.

We tend to copy the way our friends and family behave, potentially leading us to put on weight or even divorce.

It's 20 years since the London Eye first turned. The BBC tells the story of how it came to be created.

A group of viruses, of which measles is one, are adept at jumping to species barrier.

Russia condemns the US ambassador to Poland for saying the Nazi-Soviet pact triggered World War Two.

The Dyatlov Pass mystery: In the dead of winter, a group of students disappeared in the Ural Mountains. Their frozen bodies - with inexplicable injuries - were discovered in locations that compounded the puzzle of how they died.

A selection of the best news photographs from around the world in 2019.

With some blockbuster space missions underway, 2019 saw some amazing images beamed back to Earth.

For the first time, a new TV drama reassesses the woman at the centre of a scandal that exploded at the heart of the British establishment.

Opposition to vaccination has its roots in a militancy that was at its height more than 100 years ago.

Nasa wants to send humans to Mars one day, but do we have the engines to get us there?

Russia's alternative to the global internet would cut its citizens off from some foreign services.