Internet group Yahoo says it has been ordered to pay $2.7bn to two plaintiffs in a Mexican court ruling.

Anti-smoking campaigners celebrate as Australia becomes the first country in the world to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes.

Labour retain Croydon North, Middlesbrough and Rotherham in by-elections, with UKIP enjoying a good night and the Lib Dems a poor one.

The youngest female drivers face significant increases in their insurance costs from this month, according to new figures.

North Korea's official news agency announces the country is to launch a long-range rocket between 10 and 22 December.

New video footage from Sebastian Vettel's car shows he did not commit an overtaking offence at the Brazilian Grand Prix.

Police search for a 12-year-old boy feared killed by a crocodile in northern Australia, the second potential fatality there in two weeks.

A house marooned in the middle of a new road in China for more than a year because its owner refused to move out is finally demolished.