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A registration system for Glastonbury Festival tickets, designed to frustrate touts, is to open later.

Shares in computer firm Dell rise 5% on the news that founder Michael Dell has returned to lead the firm.

People visiting Trafalgar Square are invited to take part in an interactive art installation.

This is a real shame. The main camera on the Hubble Space Telescope has shut down due to an electrical failure.

US space agency experts have said that only a third of the camera’s capabilities can be restored. A new camera for the giant orbiting telescope is not due to be fitted until 2008, when the space shuttle pays it a visit.

It seems third time unlucky then since there have been two other technical hitches since last year. There are other Hubble instruments that astronomers can use, like the Field Planetary Camera-2 and the Near Infrared Camera Multi-Object Spectrograph – but the failure of the primary camera is a real loss.

To see some more amazing space photographs captured by the main camera, jump now.-Martin Lynch

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Actor Russell Crowe is to play the Sheriff of Nottingham in a Robin Hood film, according to reports.

Tagging or labelling online content is becoming the new search tool of choice among web users, shows research.

LOS ANGELES, February 1 (Reuters Life!) - Kris Smith called
it “the equivalent of a man Tupperware party.”

Police receive new information following allegations of racist abuse in Channel 4’s Celebrity Big Brother.

LONDON (Reuters) - The market for content and services on
mobile phones is expected to grow to $150 billion (76 billion
pounds) by 2011, as access to the Web while on the move becomes
easier and faster, research from Informa Telecoms & Media
showed.

BBC Radio 4’s soap opera The Archers loses nearly 200,000 listeners after featuring controversial storylines.