Network equipment giant Cisco Systems announces plans to lay off 4,000 workers, about 5% of its workforce.

Brain scans have given a China-US team of scientists fresh insights into how we read.

International Airlines Group announces orders and options for up to 220 Airbus A320 aircraft, with more than half for its Spanish budget airline Vueling.

More than 300,000 teenagers are getting the results of their A-levels, as universities compete to get more of them through their doors.

The government is to lift a ban on healthcare workers with HIV carrying out certain medical and dental procedures.

Some 2,500 workers at the Escondida mine in northern Chile begin an unannounced strike over pay and conditions.

Criminologists find four distinct types of "family annihilator" from an analysis of newspaper crime reports from 1980 to 2012.

The number of organ transplants carried out in the UK has reached a record high, health service figures show.