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.

A teenager who claimed to have been stabbed on a canal towpath is fined after video revealed he injured himself in a failed stunt.

The US government cannot force tobacco companies to put large graphic health warnings on cigarette packages, an appeals court rules.