Police arrest a 21-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy over a shooting in a shop in which a girl and a local resident were wounded.

A long-standing idea that languages share universal features dictated by human brain structure is cast into doubt.

Transport problems remain "one of the biggest risks" to the 2012 Olympic Games, a London Assembly report claims.

Some of the historic Lewis Chessman go on display at a museum on the island where they were found more than 150 years ago.

Recordings of male humpback whales have shown that the mammals' haunting songs spread like trends through the ocean.

Libyan defector Moussa Koussa has been interviewed about the Lockerbie bombing as a "potential witness", Scotland's first minister says.

The RAF's most advanced fighter jets are being grounded owing to shortages of spare parts, the Commons public accounts committee has found.

The US Congress passes a budget bill that would cut $38.5bn (£23.6bn) in government spending over the rest of the fiscal year.