Maersk Group reports a big rise in profits at its container shipping unit, but its wider group profits fall.

A High Court judge has sanctioned the sterilisation of a man "in his best interests" in a landmark legal ruling.

Fewer top grades are reported at A-level, as more teenagers choose maths and science over languages.

At least 38 people die in fresh violence in Egypt, officials say, as protesters loyal to ousted President Morsi clash with security forces.

The CIA officially acknowledges the secret US test site known as Area 51 in a newly unclassified internal history of the U-2 spy plane programme.

Traffic lights giving cyclists priority over other traffic are being trialled for the first time in the UK at a junction in Cambridge.

The baton which will visit all 71 competing nations and territories ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next year is unveiled.

Zimbabwe's MDC party drops its legal challenge to President Mugabe's re-election, saying it cannot get fair hearing.