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Technology Upends Another Industry: Homebuilding

NPR News - Tue, 2013-02-26 00:21

A Maryland building firm automated its home design process, and now it's looking to use another company to assemble houses on-site from parts. The firm has half as many workers as before the recession.

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Rail fiasco 'to cost at least £50m'

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 00:20
A "complete lack of common sense" in the government's handling of the West Coast Main Line rail bids will cost taxpayers at least £50m, MPs say.

Blaze at disused primary school

BBC - Tue, 2013-02-26 00:06
Firefighters tackle a blaze at the disused Westercommon Primary School in the east end of Glasgow that broke out in the early hours.

Couple marry as Shrek characters

BBC - Mon, 2013-02-25 23:46
A Jersey couple who got married dressed as film characters had to get special permission from the Government for their ceremony.

Hardy withdraws from Churchill role

BBC - Mon, 2013-02-25 23:45
Actor Robert Hardy pulls out of a West End play in which he was to have played Winston Churchill opposite Dame Helen Mirren after suffering a fall.

MPs call for Army complaints change

BBC - Mon, 2013-02-25 23:25
Too many "genuine complaints" about bullying, harassment, or sexual offences in the armed services are not being reported, MPs say.

VIDEO: Horsemeat tests continue in Holland

BBC - Mon, 2013-02-25 23:10
The BBC's Anna Holligan visits a laboratory in the Netherlands to find out how meat products are tested for horse DNA.

Sham visa wedding fixers exposed

BBC - Mon, 2013-02-25 22:46
BBC Wales exposes a gang offering brides and grooms for sale to people wanting to cheat their way to a visa and avoid deportation.

Life-saving drug not administered

BBC - Mon, 2013-02-25 22:27
Two of Northern Ireland's five health trusts have not distributed a potentially life-saving drug, despite it being available to them since July 2012.

Gaza rocket fired into south Israel

BBC - Mon, 2013-02-25 22:19
A rocket fired from Gaza lands in southern Israel - the first such attack since shortly after a ceasefire ended clashes in November, Israeli police say.

Parades body outlines flag row role

BBC - Mon, 2013-02-25 22:18
The Northern Ireland Parades Commission says it has no role to play in the vast majority of union flag protests, despite calls for it to get involved in the issue.

Aquino urges end to Sabah stand-off

BBC - Mon, 2013-02-25 22:13
Philippines President Aquino tells a sultan whose supporters are occupying part of Malaysia's Sabah province to end the stand-off or risk legal action.

Papers assess cardinal's resignation

BBC - Mon, 2013-02-25 21:46
Papers assess Cardinal Keith O'Brien's resignation

Colombia coffee growers go on strike

BBC - Mon, 2013-02-25 20:43
Thousands of Colombian coffee growers demand greater subsidies to protect them against falling prices and a strong local currency.

Maize 'was key in Andean society'

BBC - Mon, 2013-02-25 19:57
New evidence strengthens the argument that maize played an important role in ancient Peruvian civilisation 5,000 years ago, a study suggests.

VIDEO: Why messaging could be murder in Jamaica

BBC - Mon, 2013-02-25 19:20
The BBC's Nick Davis explains why police in Jamaica are warning drivers not to use mobile phones to tip-off other motorists about roadblocks.

US wife accuses 'cannibal' policeman

BBC - Mon, 2013-02-25 18:48
The estranged wife of a New York City policeman tells a court about her discovery of his alleged plans to kill her and cannibalise women.

Burma's Thein Sein heads to Europe

BBC - Mon, 2013-02-25 18:42
Burma's President Thein Sein embarks on his first European tour, where he is expected to engage in high-level talks.

Food giants 'not acting ethically'

BBC - Mon, 2013-02-25 18:28
The world's largest food companies are failing to meet ethical standards and are instead profiting from a broken system, a report by charity Oxfam says.

VIDEO: Ikea on horsemeat in meatballs

BBC - Mon, 2013-02-25 18:20
Ikea's Food Sustainability Manager Anders Lennartsson has said his company is taking "very seriously" the news that a test in the Czech Republic found traces of horsemeat in a batch of Ikea meatballs made in Sweden.
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