The polls have closed in the Eastleigh by-election, with the result due in the early hours of Friday morning.

A BP executive admits that the scope of an internal investigation into the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster that he led did not include budget pressures from top management.

The founder and chief executive of Groupon, Andrew Mason, is ousted after another quarterly loss prompts a 24% slide in the online voucher firm's share price.

The US Congress is set to adjourn for the weekend without passing a deal to avert $85bn (£56bn) in budget cuts scheduled to take effect on Friday.

Virgin Atlantic unveils details of its UK domestic service, Little Red, which Sir Richard Branson says will challenge British Airways.

South African President Jacob Zuma condemns an incident captured on video showing a taxi driver being dragged through the streets by a police van.

The number of young people not in education, training or work in England has fallen slightly since this time last year.

One of the big crowd-pullers at France's annual agricultural fair is the national pig-noise contest.