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Details emerge of a plan to mine asteroids for their resources backed by film director James Cameron and Google billionaires Larry Page and Eric Schmidt.

A teenage girl has had a remarkable escape after she fell into an underground cavern in northern China. The teenager was walking by a road in the city of Xi'an when she suddenly vanished through the pavement and had to be rescued.

A hundred and fifty years after he was born, why does the work of Gustav Klimt still hold mass appeal?

The families of two Indian fishermen, killed in firing by two Italian marines in February, reach an agreement with the Italian authorities to withdraw their court cases.

A day after the fall of his government, Dutch PM Mark Rutte urges MPs to react "responsibly" to the country's economic problems.

Perthshire village of Dull tries to form partnership with the US town of Boring to highlight its unexciting name

A Sheffield United team-mate of Ched Evans is suspended over alleged Twitter comments after the jailed Wales international's rape conviction.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir says Sudan has "declared war" on his country, following weeks of fighting along their common border.

Rangers supporters groups are outraged by penalties imposed on their club by the Scottish Football Association.

European shares recover slightly from Monday's sharp falls as investors shake off rising Spanish bond yields and worsening forecasts of Greek economic contraction.

Bang Goes The Theory's Jem Stansfield attempts to build a plane which is kept in the air by the energy of his own pedalling.

Five men aged between 21 and 35 are arrested in Luton on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, Scotland Yard says.

Nigeria's parliament discusses a report said to reveal that $6bn (£4bn) has been defrauded from the country's fuel subsidy fund in the past two years.

Great Britain's women's football team will open the Olympic Games against New Zealand, while the men face Senegal in their first game.

Egypt's ruling generals approve an amendment to the electoral law that would bar senior officials from the Mubarak era from running for president.

The trial of Nat Fraser, accused of murdering his wife Arlene more than a decade ago, hears that he joked about her disappearance.

Rory McIlroy will replace Tiger Woods as the star of golf, predicts Peter Dawson, chief executive of the sport's governing body.

Europe's Cryosat spacecraft is now watching the ebb and flow of Arctic sea ice with high precision, report scientists.

Israel decides to make legal under Israeli law three settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, drawing Palestinian condemnation.

Soweto Kinch gives Alfred Hitchcock a jazz soundtrack