A US appeals court rules that two men who say the concept for Facebook was stolen from them cannot back out of a settlement deal signed with the website.

Ivory Coast's UN-recognised President, Alassane Ouattara, urges restraint after the capture of his bitter rival Laurent Gbagbo.

Libya's former foreign minister warns against civil war taking hold in Libya, in his first public comments since his defection.

Jockey Peter Toole is expected to be brought out of his medically-induced coma after being seriously hurt in a fall at Aintree on Saturday.

England's Mark Cueto is banned for nine weeks for "making contact with the eye or eye area" of Northampton's Christian Day, meaning he is free to play in the World Cup.

Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko says a deadly blast in the Minsk metro system was an attempt to destabilise the country.

The survival rate for bowel cancer surgery varies widely between hospitals in England, a study in the journal Gut shows.

The dead sister of a convicted child sex attacker is being exhumed from a church graveyard in Devon by police officers investigating sexual abuse.