A space rock the size of an Olympic swimming pool will pass harmlessly within 28,000km of Earth on Friday - just a tenth the distance to the Moon.

Food safety experts from across the EU are set to meet to draw up a testing regime in response to the widening crisis over mislabelled horsemeat.

Almost a fifth of the world's reptile species are at risk of extinction, according to scientists.

A meteor crashing to earth in the Urals of central Russia injures at least 400 people, as the shockwave blows out windows, according to Russian media.

Anti-anxiety drugs for humans are being excreted and flushed into waterways where they are probably affecting fish behaviour, say Swedish scientists.

Scientists are to hunt for new antibiotics at the bottom of the ocean in an £8m project led by experts at Aberdeen University.

Catering giant Compass Group and Whitbread, one of Britain's largest hotel chains, have found horse DNA in products sold as beef, it emerges.