As I said whenI announced the latest round of DQF cuts in September, we are only just halfway through a process of cost savings that will continue over the next twoyears. In News and the English Regions, we have committed to find just over ?60million of annual savings - or 14 per cent of our budget - by 2016/17. By April2014, we will already have achieved ?38 million of those savings. That means wehave to find at least a further ?20 million in savings. We are also going tohave to find the funds to contribute to the extra ?100m to invest in theiPlayer and deliver on Tony Hall's vision of a creative, digital future acrossthe BBC. And that's before we can reallocate resources in the future foranything new.

The material that Sumit Chaudhary and his team developed can be deposited even of ridges in the substrate measuring 1 nanometer. The result is that the light that would normally reflect in those ridges isn't lost, but absorbed more efficiently, and reflected from one ridge to another.

CAF president Stephan Brown said he was aware of Craddick's threat to cut funding for the nonprofit, which is dedicated to preserving military combat aircraft. But he "hoped that cooler heads would prevail and this might just be posturing."

The TSA has now come with an alternative, which they believe would address complaints relating to security screenings at airports. It will establish a dedicated toll-free 800-number telephone hotline to air travelers who require assistance during the airport security screening.Patagonia Inc., the environmentally minded apparel company, has joined with well-known musicians across a range of genres to raise money for environmental causes.

Last year things took a truly forlorn turn. With other avenues for optimism destroyed by a sobering failure to qualify for Euro 2008 and by years of painful, repeated evidence of ineptitude, I remember glibly predicting we'd win the World Cup because "we've got a very nice kit."