BP loses a second attempt to suspend compensation payments over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Brokerage giant Merrill Lynch agrees to pay $160m (£103.1m) to settle a race discrimination lawsuit with more than 1,200 employees, say lawyers.

President Barack Obama says the US has concluded the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attacks last week.

There are structural differences in parts of the brain between people who have migraines and those who do not, according to a review by researchers in Denmark.

Mobile networks Vodafone and O2 join EE as the UK's 4G providers, with a limited roll-out across three cities.

The final wishes and wills of more than 230,000 British soldiers from WWI are made available online.

Life may have started on Mars before arriving on Earth, a major scientific conference has heard.

One year on from the Paralympics, the event's legacy "hangs in the balance" as attitudes towards disabled people fail to improve, charities warn.