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Researchers decipher the gorilla's genetic code, which should help science answer questions about the development of human abilities.

The organisers of Eurovision announce that Armenia has pulled out of the 2012 show in Baku amid new tension with its old rival Azerbaijan.

Natalie Huss-Smickler and Edith Argy were among an estimated 20,000 German Jews, mostly women, to take advantage of the domestic service visas being issued by the British government in the 1930s.

The death of a Dorset schoolboy who was struck on the head with a cricket ball was a "tragic accident", police say.

The Bank of Ireland is to raise the standard variable rate (SVR) on its mortgages to 4.49% from 2.99%, affecting 100,000 UK customers.

Initial assessments of an explosion which killed six British soldiers in southern Afghanistan suggest it was a "very large Taliban bomb".

Four people are taken to hospital after a shop hoarding on London's Oxford Street collapses on them.

Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim once again comes top of Forbes magazine's annual list of the world's richest billionaires.

Rangers' administrator says the club is unable to meet a Uefa deadline and will not play in Europe next season.

Hackers identifying themselves as Antisec attack the website of security firm Panda Labs following an FBI swoop on Tuesday.

Two businessmen are cleared of deceiving hundreds of victims out of £115 million in Britain's biggest "Ponzi" investment scam.

Prosecutors in the war crimes trial of Serb nationalist Vojislav Seselj at The Hague call for him to be jailed for 28 years.

Veteran Democratic congressman Dennis Kucinich - who has run for president twice - loses an Ohio primary, as Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher wins his.

A man in New Zealand who caught a giant tuna is waiting to hear if he has set a world record.

A former North Wales Police custody nurse is struck-off for falsely claiming she had throat cancer to explain her high sickness absence.

Chart-topping County Down band Snow Patrol donates £10,000 to a fund launched after the death of young Belfast man Joby Murphy.

Stem cells taken from the back of a human eye have restored some vision to blind rats, according to researchers.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is charged with improper conduct by Uefa for comments he made about referee Damir Skomina.

Newcastle and Sunderland are charged with misconduct by the Football Association following their derby match on Sunday.

Rangers' administrator delays proposed player redundancies as it attempts to make a quick sale of the Glasgow club.