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Plastic items such as cutlery and straws would be banned in the EU under plans approved by MEPs.

The harpoon and axes were made from red deer antler by hunter-gatherers in Highlands in the Mesolithic period.

Planners are allowing edge-of-town housing estates where car travel is only option, researchers say.

A team of 30 surgeons in London operated on the babies weeks before they were born.

Naree was illegally smuggled to Thailand and forced to perform in a circus.

Reducing our use of sand and cement cuts down on CO2 emissions and lessens the impact on the environment.

Nasa believes it has fixed a malfunction with the Hubble telescope which threatened to limit the orbiting observatory's performance.

Nasa has released a striking photo of a rectangular iceberg floating in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica.

A Greek merchant ship dating back more than 2,400 years is found almost perfectly preserved.

Riverford vegetable box boss says more focus should be on cutting carbon, not demonising plastic.

Overgrown mice are killing millions of chicks on the remote Gough Island in the South Atlantic.

Newly digitised pictures shine light on the first British reconnaissance trip to Everest, in 1921.

A deep-sea swimming sea cucumber has been filmed in the Southern Ocean off East Antarctica for the first time.

It was feared that Luzia, a 12,000-year-old fossil, had been totally lost in the Brazil fire.

The Poralia rufescens is swimming off the coast of southern California in the Pacific Ocean.

The sci-fi plan would use giant mirrors in space to light city streets, but scientists are sceptical.

The Environment Agency is probing claims exporters are abusing the recycled plastics market.

Europe and Japan await the launch of their joint mission to the little world nearest the Sun.

The bones, discovered on the site of an ancient river, are thought to be at least 130,000 years old.

The genetically modified insects are part of a project which aims to tackle malaria in Africa.