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The voice of Alexander Graham Bell has been identified and heard for the first time in a recording from 1885.

The Nationalist MSP for Aberdeen Donside, Brian Adam, has died at the age of 64 after a battle with cancer.

The number of violent and sex crimes recorded by police in England and Wales is falling but pickpocketing is on the rise, figures suggest.

The rises and falls of UK economy

Treating 17-year-olds in custody as adults is incompatible with human rights law, the High Court rules, following a teenager's legal challenge.

Ed Miliband calls Len McCluskey, the leader of Labour's biggest donor union, "reprehensible" for seeking to "divide" the party.

Also: Sexism on Wikipedia?; a defense of Oprah's Book Club; and Gary Shteyngart is coming out with a memoir next year.

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Tyre supplier Pirelli resists pressure from Red Bull to make its tyres more durable for the rest of the season.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says Lib Dems will not agree to any new law allowing all Britons' online activity to be recorded.

The FBI wants to speak with "Misha," a man who relatives of the suspects say may have introduced Tamerlan Tsarnaev to radical Islam. Meanwhile, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reportedly stopped giving information to investigators after being read his Miranda rights.

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An NHS telephone advice line is withdrawn in Worcestershire after concerns over patient safety.

United Continental, JetBlue, Southwest, and Alaska Airlines are all reporting earnings today. Overall, the industry says profit margins are fragile, and they’re blaming the FAA for the latest threat.

Fewer air traffic controllers are clocked-in nationwide, because of automatic federal spending cuts. That means flight delays and a whole lot of angry customers. So far the delays are not that bad; it’s what’s coming in the next few months that airlines are worried about.

“Especially as we go into the summer peak season, this could most definitely have a negative impact on their bottom line,” says Darin Lee, an airline industry consultant at Compass Lexicon.

Lee says these days airlines are flying fewer planes, so more flights are full.

“If they’re forced to reduce number of flights out of D.C., O’Hare, LaGuardia because of controller cuts, then that does represent lost revenues for those airlines,” he explains.

The airlines say they’re trying to minimize frustration for passengers, but the industry trade group Airlines for America (A4A) says the delays are unpredictable, and unaffordable.

“This is an industry that last year, in a profitable year, our profit amounted to $0.21 a passenger, so you can see that that’s very narrow margins,” says A4A spokeswoman Jean Medina.

Airlines are asking employees and passengers to be patient with the delays, and take their complaints to Congress.

MPs put questions to Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin and his team.

Three British men, including a former police community support officer and a recent convert to Islam, are jailed for preparing acts of terrorism.

A man who stabbed his girlfriend 19 times in the neck in order to end their relationship is sentenced to life in prison.

The cost of motor insurance has fallen by 4.1% over the last year, according to an AA survey of the cheapest deals on the market.

One regulator should be responsible for regulating the workplace pensions sector as millions more people are signed up to schemes, MPs say.

Neil Lennon says his Celtic players are angry over their absence from the shortlist for PFA Scotland's player of the year.

The first footage in 50 years has been taken of what lies inside the UK's first fast breeder nuclear reactor.

Today is Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, when parents host their kids at the office to expand their career horizons. Originally called Take Our Daughters to Work Day, the event was founded in 1993 by Gloria Steinem and the Ms. Foundation for Women.

"The effects were explosive," recalls Marie Wilson, who was president of the Ms. Foundation at the time. "First of all, the visibility of girls in the workplace, showed up the invisibility of adult women."

Wilson says countless women have told her that going to work with a parent of other adult shaped their careers. Still, many critics say girls no longer need to be singled out. After all, women now make up half the American workforce.

"It’s becoming a little archaic," says Susan Heathfield, a human resources expert. "My personal preference would be Take Your Child to Work Day."

In fact, the day’s official title was changed in 2003 to Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. Still, Ms. Foundation’s Wilson thinks a day that focuses on women’s role in the workplace is still relevant.

"Women are still far behind in leadership in every area," she says, pointing out that American women hold fewer than 20 percent of leadership jobs and make about 77 cents for every dollar a man makes.