Former Conservative chancellor Ken Clarke has been recorded calling the Tory leadership contest a "fiasco" and making disparaging comments about the candidates.

The share of businesses that feel pessimistic about the future of the UK economy doubled in the week after the Brexit vote, research seen by BBC Newsnight suggests.

Australia's opposition leader calls on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to resign after a cliff-hanger election failed to deliver a clear winner.

Conservative MPs are to begin the first round of voting to replace David Cameron as party leader and UK prime minister.

Nearly three out of four couples that begin fertility treatment will eventually become parents, long-term studies suggest.

The US space agency's Juno probe puts itself in orbit around Jupiter, ready to undertake a survey of what lies beneath the giant planet's obscuring clouds.

US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton says a tweet from rival Donald Trump featuring a six-pointed star is "blatantly anti-Semitic".

The mother of a British man who allegedly snatched a police officer's gun at a rally for Donald Trump says she worries her son may try to take his own life.