A specialist ship begins scanning the Indian Ocean seabed in the next phase of the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists who discovered the brain's "GPS system".

Northumbria Police are reinvestigating 54 out of 153 cases where rape reports were subsequently classed as "no crime".

The US Supreme Court rejects appeals against gay marriage in five US states, increasing the number where it's legal to 30, in a move applauded by campaigners.

Computer code that can turn almost any device that connects via USB into a cyber-attack platform has been shared online.

Spain's health minister confirms a nurse who treated an Ebola victim in Madrid has contracted the virus in the first infection outside Africa.

Alan Henning's brother calls on David Cameron to send troops to catch the Islamic State "monsters" who murdered the aid worker.

Savings of up to £1m are to be protected under new proposals from the Bank of England aimed at avoiding a Northern Rock style run on a bank.