A 21-year-old man shot dead in a street in south London a week ago appears to have been "an innocent bystander", Scotland Yard says.

Standard & Poor's accidentally releases a message to some of its subscribers saying that it had downgraded French debt from its top AAA rating.

The testimony of former President Richard Nixon for the Watergate grand jury has been made public after it was kept secret for 36 years.

The Queen has opened a British Library exhibition featuring manuscripts which belonged to medieval kings and queens.

Millions of people across the UK are expected to observe a two-minute silence later to mark Armistice Day.

A US military court convicts Sgt Calvin Gibbs, an American soldier, on three counts of premeditated murder for the deaths of unarmed Afghan civilians.

Eating more cereals and whole grains every day could reduce the risk of developing colorectal cancer, a study in the BMJ says.

Scientists have opened up the possibility of one day using cancer patients' own skin to fight their tumours.