Two men are to stand trial over the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence in London in 1993.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have agreed to hold a ballot for a national strike over cuts to the public sector.

Teams win a stay of execution over a ban on Formula 1's latest must-have technology at this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix.

The hotel maid who says she was sexually assaulted by IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is enduring an "extraordinary" trauma, her lawyer says.

Chairman and founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates says he was strongly behind the company's plan to takeover loss-making firm Skype.

Five British soldiers killed in an attack by a rogue Afghan policeman in 2009 were there because of a "blood feud" between a police commander and the Taliban, an inquest hears.

Coffee has been linked to a reduced risk of dying from prostate cancer in a US study of nearly 50,000 men.

The organisers of the London Olympic Games are to announce some of the places the torch relay will visit next year.