Commercial satellite giant, Intelsat, launches the first of its new Epic spacecraft - a next-generation high-throughput telecommunications system - that will be critical to the future fortune of the company.

Health officials battling the Zika virus in Brazil say as many as 100,000 people could have been infected in one city alone.

A study shows for the first time that bed bugs in the US have developed resistance to neonicotinoids, the world's most widely used insecticides.

Polecats, which were almost wiped out in Britain 100 years ago, are now spreading across Britain, a survey shows.