Internet search engine Google changes the tagline on the front page of its Palestinian edition from "Palestinian Territories" to "Palestine".

A legal challenge to the Scottish government's plans to introduce minimum pricing per unit of alcohol has failed.

The Solar Impulse plane, which holds records including the longest manned zero-fuel flight, begins a bid to cross the US, taking off from San Francisco.

The bike at the centre of the Downing Street "plebgate row", which cost the then chief whip Andrew Mitchell his job, sells for £10,600 on eBay.

At least 40 people were killed by pro-government gunmen in north-west Syria on Thursday, activists say, prompting opposition claims of a "massacre".

Leaflets expressing support for the suspected Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appear on walls in the Chechen capital Grozny.

Scientists design a flying robot the size of a fly that is able to perform the agile manoeuvres of the insect that inspired its design.

As France scales back its military operation in Mali, the European Union is trying to turn Mali's army into a professional fighting force.