Hundreds of people are feared dead after two boats carrying up to 500 migrants capsize off the Libyan city of Zuwara.

Police in Austria work through the night to establish how many people died in a lorry found abandoned on a motorway near the Hungarian border.

Facebook boast a new record, with more than a billion people using the social network on a single day this week.

Brain cells in Parkinson's disease exhaust themselves and die prematurely, burning out like an "overheating motor", an early study suggests.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Lancashire should no longer need to boil their tap water to make it safe within the coming week, United Utilities says.

The number of Post Offices opening on a Sunday will hit 3,000 this week-end, thanks to new facilities at a garden centre in Norfolk.

Young motorists are the most likely to speak on the phone while driving, a survey for road safety charity Brake suggests.

Britain's biggest satellite operator, Inmarsat, awaits the launch of the spacecraft that will complete its new £1bn global telecommunications network.