UK oil giant BP is suing the US government for blocking the company from new federal contracts.

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn says he has built up a "large" stake in Apple saying that the company is "extremely undervalued".

Members of Libya's minority Berber community storm the parliament building in Tripoli during a protest demanding recognition in the new constitution.

Thieves and fraudsters should not be jailed, a legal expert says in a pamphlet released by the Howard League for Penal Reform.

A group of former Army officers will visit Downing Street later to demand the option of UK resettlement for Afghan interpreters who worked for British forces.

A gun instructor in the US state of Ohio accidentally shoots a student in the arm in a class for people seeking permits to carry a concealed firearm.

UN officials have begun inspecting an arms shipment found on a North Korean ship, Panama's security minister says.

Children born to obese and overweight mothers are more likely to die early of heart disease, a study suggests.