The first private spacecraft to land on Mars will carry experiments designed by students and school pupils, the firm behind the project says.

A 27-year-old woman injured in an attack by two dogs at a house in Leeds dies in hospital.

An image of US President Barack Obama posing for a mobile phone snap with Danish PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt and the UK's David Cameron makes waves.

The UK will aim to double funding for dementia research by 2025 from the £66m target for 2015, the prime minister says.

Thousands of police have moved on a large protest camp near Independence Square in the centre of the Ukrainian capital Kiev.

Parliament in Uruguay votes in favour of legalising the cultivation, consumption and distribution of marijuana - the first country to do so.

A soldier injured in battle is believed to be the first person in the UK to control a bionic arm with his mind.

Thick fog in southern England is causing travel disruption in southern England Flights have been cancelled and delayed at London's Heathrow and City airports due to fog.