Allegations that pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline systematically bribed doctors in China are credible, says an investigator hired by the firm.

The UK drew up plans to train and equip a 100,000-strong Syrian rebel army to defeat President Bashar al-Assad, BBC Newsnight has learned.

Iraqis from areas seized by forces led by the Islamist extremist group Isis, have been telling harrowing stories about people being targeted by the fighters and killed.

Many front pages focus on the situation at UK airports, where security has been tightened amid fears passengers could carry surgically implanted bombs.

Researchers work out the meaning of the gestures that wild chimpanzees use to communicate.

Cars competing in the first ever international motor racing series for electric vehicles have been running in anger for the first time.

Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson is due to be sentenced after he was found guilty of conspiracy to hack phones.

Rolf Harris is due to be sentenced for 12 counts of indecent assault against girls - including one as young as seven or eight - in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.