Maersk Group reports a big rise in profits at its container shipping unit, but its wider group profits fall.

Five Respect councillors resign the party whip after George Galloway accuses them of attempting to "sabotage the party".

A High Court judge has sanctioned the sterilisation of a man "in his best interests" in a landmark legal ruling.

Spain's richest woman Rosalia Mera, who co-founded Zara's parent company Inditex, dies at the age of 69.

Fewer top grades are reported at A-level, as more teenagers choose maths and science over languages.

At least 38 people die in fresh violence in Egypt, officials say, as protesters loyal to ousted President Morsi clash with security forces.

The CIA officially acknowledges the secret US test site known as Area 51 in a newly unclassified internal history of the U-2 spy plane programme.

Cash-strapped local councils in England lose millions to housing benefit fraud - and the government is not doing enough to stop it, a Tory MP claims.