The BBC's Dougal Shaw checks out a digital carpet, that can be pre-programmed with a visual display, or take in data from the internet live.

A Chinese ship has rammed a Vietnamese boat near a controversial oil rig in the South China Sea, Vietnamese officials say, amid ongoing tensions.

A vast peatland covering an area the size of England is discovered in a remote part of Congo-Brazzaville, scientists report.

Lloyds Banking Group is to float a 25% stake in its TSB business, which has 631 High Street branches, on the London stock market.

UKIP has "no solutions to the problems to the 21st Century", former prime minister Tony Blair says.

Britain's Heather Watson moves into the French Open second round with a 6-3 6-4 win over Barbora Zahlavova Strycova.

The sale of royal telephone directories to the former royal editor of the News of the World was a "storm in a tea cup", the jury at the phone-hacking trial hears.

The Google-owned YouTube has removed videos posted by Elliot Rodger, the gunman who killed six students in California last week.