Brazil and Mexico demand an explanation from the US over claims that the National Security Agency (NSA) spied on the presidents of both Latin American countries.

Small business owners polled in the UK work fewer hours than their counterparts in the US, Germany, France, Netherlands or Spain, according to a survey.

Thousands of oil and gas industry delegates are in Aberdeen for the start of the biennial Offshore Europe exhibition and conference.

Some 86% of all new complaints made to the UK's financial ombudsman in the first half of the year were about PPI mis-selling - a record high.

The daughter of Libya's former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi has been abducted after leaving a prison in Tripoli, officials say.

A tiny frog with no ears hears using its mouth cavity as a "resonator" to convey sound signals to its brain, research reveals.

A man who drove a JCB for 40 years is taken to his final resting place in the bucket of his digger.

A disgruntled customer has used the same social media ad tools as BA to complain about lost luggage.