An agreement is reached on the US budget to avoid another government shutdown, Republican and Democratic lawmakers say.

The first private spacecraft to land on Mars will carry experiments designed by students and school pupils, the firm behind the project says.

A 27-year-old woman injured in an attack by two dogs at a house in Leeds dies in hospital.

An image of US President Barack Obama posing for a mobile phone snap with Danish PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt and the UK's David Cameron makes waves.

The UK will aim to double funding for dementia research by 2025 from the £66m target for 2015, the prime minister says.

Criminals are discussing ways to produce a ransomware creation kit in order to further the spread of blackmailing malware.

The public spending watchdog says England's flagship free school programme will cost at least three times the sum it was originally allocated.

Thousands of police have moved on a large protest camp near Independence Square in the centre of the Ukrainian capital Kiev.