Business-focused social networking website LinkedIn's quarterly profits beat expectations as Facebook shares slump another 4%.

The justice secretary writes to the coroner leading the inquest into the murder of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, to raise concerns about its cost.

Former News International boss Rebekah Brooks has been formally charged with phone hacking, Scotland Yard says.

A "spray-on skin" which coats a wound with a layer of skin cells could help healing, according to US and Canadian researchers.

Two men and a teenager are charged with murder after a 16-year-old boy was fatally stabbed in south-east London.

Legal action to unmask a Twitter user who set up an account spoofing a top UK newspaper executive is dropped.

The United States signals it would resist any effort to pass control of the internet from US bodies to a UN agency.

More pupils in the UK are taking international GCSEs, figures from exam boards suggest.