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Live news and current affairs, business and sport from around the world.

Stock markets have risen, but is the world economy really on the road toward a healthy recovery? Michael Blastland says each investor is still guessing how everyone else feels about the economy. Show more

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Scientists race to save the rarest ducks – in a bathtub; the pluses and minuses of melting polar ice; could a gene for speech be used to make talking chimps and how do sprinters run so fast. Show more

BBC News reports from around the world.

BBC News reports from around the world.

Is the war in Afghanistan actually winnable? Will ten new nuclear power plants in Britain save us from global warming or put the world in peril? And is it wrong to joke about wounded soldiers? Show more

BBC News reports from around the world.

The best of the world's arts, film, music, literature and music brought to you every day. Show more

Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.

Scientists race to save the rarest ducks – in a bathtub; the pluses and minuses of melting polar ice; could a gene for speech be used to make talking chimps and how do sprinters run so fast. Show more

BBC News reports from around the world.

Is the war in Afghanistan actually winnable? Will ten new nuclear power plants in Britain save us from global warming or put the world in peril? And is it wrong to joke about wounded soldiers? Show more

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BBC News reports from around the world.

BBC News reports from around the world.

Scientists race to save the rarest ducks – in a bathtub; the pluses and minuses of melting polar ice; could a gene for speech be used to make talking chimps and how do sprinters run so fast. Show more

Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.

The best of the world's arts, film, music, literature and music brought to you every day.

Live news and current affairs, business and sport from around the world.

Is the war in Afghanistan actually winnable? Will ten new nuclear power plants in Britain save us from global warming or put the world in peril? And is it wrong to joke about wounded soldiers? Show more

Peter Day talks to Daniel Yergin, one of the world's great experts on oil and the energy industry. Show more

Storyteller Pamela Marre reflects upon words of wisdom and stories passed down through families over the generations. Show more

Scientists race to save the rarest ducks – in a bathtub; the pluses and minuses of melting polar ice; could a gene for speech be used to make talking chimps and how do sprinters run so fast. Show more

Football's biggest stories of the week on the BBC. Show more

The best of the world's arts, film, music, literature and music brought to you every day.

Live news and current affairs, business and sport from around the world.

Is the war in Afghanistan actually winnable? Will ten new nuclear power plants in Britain save us from global warming or put the world in peril? And is it wrong to joke about wounded soldiers? Show more