The holder of one of three winning tickets in a record $656m (£413m) prize is looking forward to retirement, a Kansas lottery official says.

Sam Tomkins leaves his sick bed to help Wigan to a comfortable derby win over St Helens on their first trip to Langtree Park.

Five people are arrested in southern China after a teenager sold his kidney so he could buy an iPhone and iPad computer, state media say.

British gold medallist Sally Gunnell OBE has given her stamp of approval to a new design issued by Royal Mail.

Social networking websites are being used to threaten and make false allegations against teachers, according to a teachers' union.

Teachers' conferences are to hear claims that academies are a form of back-door privatisation.

Coup leaders in Mali agree to stand down in exchange for amnesty and the dropping of sanctions, as part of a deal struck with regional bloc Ecowas.

American veteran Fred Couples and compatriot Jason Dufner lead the Masters with Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood one shot back after an absorbing second round at Augusta.