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Image copyright VCG / Getty Images The UK will decide whether Huawei should be excluded from the rollout of its 5G mobile networks by the end of the year, a cabinet minister has said. Digital Secretary Nicky Morgan told the BBC she hoped the government “could do something by the autumn”. She stressed that the […]

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption South Korea already has a nationwide 5G network Bigger and taller mobile phone masts could be built without councils’ permission across the countryside, under a proposed overhaul of planning rules in England. It is part of government plans to speed up the roll-out of 5G networks and improve mobile

Image copyright Siemens/ PA Image caption A proposed design for a HS2 train The government and HS2 knew that the new high speed railway was over budget and was probably behind schedule years ago, documents seen by the BBC show. Crucially, the documents were written in 2016, before MPs had signed-off the first phase of

Image copyright Getty Images Parents spend so much money to get their children onto the housing ladder that they are now among the biggest lenders in the UK, a survey suggests. The average parental contribution for homebuyers this year is £24,100, up by more than £6,000 compared to last year, according to Legal & General

While most of the world’s population can look forward to living longer, white people in the United States without a college degree are living shorter lives due to an epidemic of drug abuse and alcoholism. Nobel economist Sir Angus Deaton says these “deaths of despair” are driven by inequality. Producer Ian Rose; Film editor: Rob

Image copyright Getty Images Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson must pay $572m (£469m) for its part in fuelling America’s opioid painkiller addiction crisis, a judge in Oklahoma has ruled. The company said immediately after the judgement that it would appeal. The case was the first to go to trial out of thousands of lawsuits filed against

The spin doctor responsible for the famous “Labour isn’t working” poster during Margaret Thatcher’s general election campaign has died aged 77. Lord Tim Bell was surrounded by his family when he died following a “prolonged illness”, said close friend and business partner Piers Pottinger. The poster was regarded as having made a key contribution to

Image copyright Megvii Image caption The Face++ system creates turns people’s faces into pattern maps that can be cross-referenced with those already stored in a database A leading Chinese facial recognition provider has filed papers for a listing on Hong Kong’s stock exchange. Megvii – the maker of the Face++ system – is one of

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Johan “N0tail” Sundstein held the Dota 2 contest’s trophy aloft after his team’s victory in Shanghai A European team has become the first to win one of the highest-profile and most lucrative video games competitions for two years in a row. OG triumphed at Dota 2 tournament The International,

Image copyright Cuadrilla/PA Image caption Shale company Cuadrilla has been fracking at the Preston New Road site An earthquake with a magnitude of 2.9 has been recorded near the UK’s only active shale gas site in Lancashire. The tremor near Blackpool was recorded at about 08:30 BST and is stronger than those that forced Cuadrilla