The Obama campaign attacks Republican candidate Mitt Romney as he alludes to a debunked theory that the president was not born in the US.

Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik and the prosecution both rule out an appeal against a court ruling sentencing him to 21 years in jail.

A US jury says Samsung should pay Apple more than $1bn in damages in an intellectual property row, rejecting claims Apple breached patents.

American foreign ministers pass a motion backing the "inviolability of diplomatic missions" amid the UK and Ecuador's row over Julian Assange.

The UK public-infrastructure contractor Mouchel enters administration after its shareholders rejected a proposed restructuring.

BBC Two is named terrestrial channel of the year at the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival.

Modern Indo-European languages - which include English - originated in Turkey about 9,000 years ago, research concludes.

Teenagers who are overweight or obese are much more likely to develop gallstones, compared with peers of a healthy weight, US research suggests.