An account of the hunt for the elusive Higgs boson wins the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for popular science books.

Argentina reaches an agreement in principle to compensate Spain's Repsol and others for the nationalisation of energy firm YPF.

The gunman who killed 26 people at a Connecticut school last year had an "obsession" with the 1999 Columbine massacre, an official report finds.

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond is to set out the SNP's blueprint for independence, ahead of next September's referendum.

"Shocking" sexual violence is being carried out by children against other children as young as 11, according to a report by the Office of the Children's Commissioner for England.

Archaeologists uncover remains of the "earliest Buddhist shrine" ever found, at Buddha's birthplace in Lumbini, Nepal.

China launches an antitrust probe against one of the world's biggest chipmakers, the US firm Qualcomm.

A dispute over where the remains of King Richard III should be reburied is to be heard later at the High Court.