A specialist ship begins scanning the Indian Ocean seabed in the next phase of the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists who discovered the brain's "GPS system".

Northumbria Police are reinvestigating 54 out of 153 cases where rape reports were subsequently classed as "no crime".

Computer code that can turn almost any device that connects via USB into a cyber-attack platform has been shared online.

Savings of up to £1m are to be protected under new proposals from the Bank of England aimed at avoiding a Northern Rock style run on a bank.

A post-mortem examination of the body thought to be Arnis Zalkalns, the prime suspect in the murder of Alice Gross, is to be held later.

Officials in southern Mexico work to identify 28 bodies found in a mass grave, in an area where 43 students disappeared after clashing with police.

US hostage Peter Kassig, who is being held by IS militants in Syria, told his parents in a letter in June that he was "scared to die", they reveal.