A design for illuminated rings that show undersized fish how to escape from a fishing net has won the UK Dyson engineering award.

Yahoo News fires its Washington bureau chief for saying White House hopeful Mitt Romney was "happy to have a party with black people drowning".

A former Motorola employee is sentenced to four years in prison for stealing trade secrets worth millions of dollars.

US President Barack Obama has spent 30 minutes answering questions from members of social news site Reddit.

San Diego Zoo in California has opened a Centre for Bioinspiration, which aims to take ideas from nature to see if they can be applied to solve human issues.

Computers that work as both tablets and laptop computers are shown off in a variety of form factors ahead of the release of Windows 8.

The Manx Lottery Trust awards £20,000 to Isle of Man scientists to help them use "passport tags" to discover more about basking sharks.

Data breaches in the UK have increased tenfold in the past five years, according to figures from the Information Commissioner's Office.