Just two weeks after landing its Curiosity rover on Mars, the US space agency announces it will send another robot to the planet in 2016.

A 36-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving following a hit-and-run incident in Leeds that left two children seriously injured.

Virgin Atlantic is to introduce a new short-haul service between London Heathrow and Manchester from next March - the airline's first domestic route.

Former Maltese Prime Minister Dom Mintoff, who dominated the country's politics for decades between the 1950s and 1980s, has died aged 96.

Consumer group Which? says there are large variations between banks in the cost of "free" current accounts.

A joke about David and Victoria Beckham wins comedian Stewart Francis the award for the best joke of the Edinburgh Fringe.

Being overweight is not just bad for people's waistlines but for their mental abilities too, suggests a study of more than 6,000 Britons.

Coastguards call off the search for a missing four-year-old boy who fell into the water at Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset.