How to feed a pet from your phone

Last year Mobile World Congress - the annual showcase event for mobile technology held in Barcelona - hosted a mocked-up house full of mobile technology that can help around the home.

This year it has gone one step further with a ''connected city''.

Would changing the law protect Britain's birds of prey

John Kerry 'lost' in London Zoo on childhood trip

John Kerry has told a press conference that he got lost in London Zoo on a childhood visit to London.

Mr Kerry was speaking alongside the British Foreign Secretary William Hague as he visited London on his first trip abroad as US Secretary of State.

Tony Blair Life in Iraq 10 years on not as I hoped

Newsnight's Kirsty Wark asks former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair if daily life in Iraq today is as he envisioned it 10 years ago.

Talking Movies Oscars 2013 winner predictions

With just days to go before Sunday's Oscars ceremony, speculation is growing about who will win on Hollywood's biggest night of the year.

Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's eulogy to the former US president, leads the field with 12 nominations, with Life of Pi, Argo, Les Miserables, and Silver Linings Playbook among the other favoured nominees.

App gives paralysed man his voice back

For the last 27 years, Kevin Beverley has been unable to speak, after a violent attack left him brain damaged and paralysed.

But after years of silence, a new computer app has helped him find his voice again.

Eddie the arthritic otter shoots hoops

Eddie the otter suffers from arthritis, so his keeper has come up with a novel way for him to improve movement in his joints - basketball.

But visitors to Oregon Zoo, where he lives, will not be able to see him doing it - he only does it in the privacy of his training pool