Technology firm Yahoo signals it may alter plans to return money to shareholders under new chief executive Marissa Mayer.

A UK-wide consultation on government plans to introduce mandatory plain packaging for tobacco, which attracted strong public interest, will close later.

Manchester United is forced to cut the value of its imminent share flotation in New York.

Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi is expected to be named the new UN envoy for Syria, diplomats say, a week after the resignation of Kofi Annan.

A robot that mimics the movements and softness of a worm is built by engineers using funds from the Pentagon's research lab.

Libya's national assembly, which assumed power amid celebrations on Thursday and is tasked with drafting a constitution, elects a moderate Islamist as its head.

The Wheatley Review into how the Libor rate-setting system works is due to publish its first set of proposals.

Petitions signed by 500,000 people calling for action by governments to combat global hunger will be handed into Downing Street later.