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Rory Cellan-Jones on TV and tech learning to co-exist More...

'Porn made me think sex was brutal' More...

What do radical Islamists actually believe in? More...

Footage has emerged from on board a plane that had to return to Heathrow Airport to make an emergency landing after black smoke was seen coming from...

Eyewitness Steve Fryer told the BBC, "I saw the right engine was on fire, flames were coming outside of it". More...

Twenty-four hours of news photoss: 24 May More...

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford sacks his chief of staff Mark Towhey as he fights claims he has been caught smoking crack cocaine on camera. More...

Two South Korean women forced into sexual slavery in WWII cancel a meeting with Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, citing fears of "political exploitation"....

There has been an explosion in central Kabul, near the hospital of Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security intelligence agency. More...

Militant leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar masterminded the two suicide bombs in Niger on Thursday which killed 20 people, a Mauritanian news agency reports....

Residents are urged to stay indoors as firefighters tackle a large blaze near a recycling plant on a Flintshire business park. More...

Runway closures cause delays for artists and Radio 1 and 1Xtra DJs flying to the Northern Ireland festival site. More...

A witness in the trial of two men accused of murdering three people in a house fire is called a "bare-faced liar" by a defence QC. More...

Taxpayers could be left with a bill for as much as £62m pounds for restoring opencast mines in East Ayrshire. More...

Two prison vans transporting defendants to the Dale Cregan trial are involved in a collision in Lancashire. More...

Four Brighton and Hove Albion footballers are found not guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. More...

Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford believes he has the potential to be one of the fastest ever British sprinters. More...

An intimate love story between two young women receives rave reviews in Cannes days before the winner of the Palme d'Or is announced. More...

Fan fiction authors will be able to publish and sell some titles in the US via new e-book platform Kindle Worlds. More...

Social networking giant postpones the launch of its "Facebook phone" after negative feedback and disappointing sales. More...

The BBC apologises after a floor plan for the BBC Question Time programme referred to John O'Dowd as 'Sinn Fein/IRA'. More...

The lawyer leading the UN's inquiry into drones welcomes President Obama's speech as a "significant step towards increased transparency". More...

A mother of eight is jailed for four years for fraudulently claiming more than £350,000 in benefits and tax credits. More...

The wife of a soldier murdered in south-east London on Wednesday says she expected her husband to be safe in the UK. More...

By Mike Floorwalker Published: May 24th, 2013 In the same way that action stars don't do their own stunts and surrogate mothers don't raise...

By Gladstone Published: May 24th, 2013 I was an English major back in college. Basically, that means when I wasn't growing my hair or...

By Chris Sims Published: May 24th, 2013 For those of you who aren't familiar with it, Surviving Edged Weapons is a police training video...

By CRACKED Readers Published: May 24th, 2013 Whether genuinely great or laughably awful, Kickstarter has provided funding for many an...

By David Christopher Bell Published: May 24th, 2013 A gun company named TrackingPoint recently figured that, since we now have smart cars...