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.

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

Brazil raises its benchmark interest rate to 9% from 8.5% in a further attempt to rein in inflation.

The home secretary says she will speak to Parliament about how police can improve the way they handle domestic violence.

Researchers say targeting mosquito breeding sites will be increasingly necessary to reduce cases of malaria as insecticide resistance grows.