All processed beef products are safe to eat but there is likely to be more unwelcome news of contamination in the ongoing horsemeat scandal, the government says.

Lolong, a six metre-long saltwater crocodile weighing over 1,000kg, dies in an eco-park in the Philippines.

Police investigating a series of sexual assaults in the French city of Marseille have arrested identical twins, but do not know which one to charge.

Romania's prime minister rejects claims two of the country's abattoirs sold horsemeat purported to be beef, as UK MPs are to be updated on the scandal.

A second case of a new respiratory illness similar to the deadly Sars virus has been identified in the UK.

Dogs are more capable of understanding events from a human's point of view than had previously been recognised, according to researchers.

The BBC re-edited the final episode of David Attenborough's nature series, Africa, to remove a piece of commentary about climate change, it has emerged.

The US launches a Landsat spacecraft to maintain the longest continuous image record of the Earth's surface as viewed from orbit.