A capsule owned by the private SpaceX company returns to Earth after the first commercial re-supply mission to the International Space Station.

Hawaii appears to be spared major damage as it is hit by a small tsunami after an earthquake hours earlier off the west Canadian coast.

The government confirms if human remains found in Leicester turn out to be those of Richard III, the skeleton will be interred in the city's cathedral.

A cheap test which could detect even low levels of viruses and some cancers has been developed by researchers in the UK.

Researchers fit thousands of carbon nanotubes - long touted as the next best thing in electronics - onto chips - at a density of a billion per square centimetre.

President Obama warns Americans to take Hurricane Sandy seriously, as the eastern seaboard starts to shut down ahead of a feared super-storm.

The iconic Old English Sheepdog is being hit by the growing popularity of so-called "handbag dogs" such as chihuahuas, the UK Kennel Club says.

Ministers confirm that 100,000 trees have been destroyed to try to prevent the spread of the deadly ash dieback disease.