The Cardiff inquest heard ranger Maguire, from County Cork, Ireland, was killed by a machine gun round probably fired from 0.6 miles (1km) away.

BBC: Michael Maguire

Another round of the pitiless nebulizing machine, another night of waking Davis up every four hours so that the hose attached to the shoebox-sized device could deliver the misty medication that would restore his breath but rattle his fragile body.

NPR: In 'Challenger Park,' Mom Is an Astronaut

In typically Asian fashion, some of the early news about who won the coveted role of Mulan whizzed round the world, not through any public-relations machine, but via the family grapevine.

CNN: WOMAN WARRIOR

Mr Kirchner is less popular than Mr Menem within his own Peronist movement, and owed much of his success in the first round to the backing of Mr Duhalde's party machine in Buenos Aires province.

ECONOMIST: Argentina's election

The discovery eventually came about using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a machine at CERN that sends bunches of protons round a ring 27km in circumference, in opposite directions, at close to the speed of light, so that they collide head on.

ECONOMIST: The Higgs boson

The machine made only two errors over the course of the round.

FORBES: IBM's Supercomputer Pulverizes Puny Humans In First Jeopardy Game

One of them, Rear Admiral Simon Lister, is in charge of this complex programme, and as he took me round the cramped corridors, past the nuclear reactor and down into the sweaty machine rooms, he acknowledged this was a prototype and there was always going to be some "teething" issues.

BBC: HMS Astute recovers from shaky start

The machine that Dr O'Brien and Dr Frazier have designed to get round these constraints consists of a transmitter that sends out a pulse of sound at a frequency of 6 kilohertz, and an array of 52 receivers that collect the reflections from anything buried beneath the surface.

ECONOMIST: Archaeology