An activist shareholder is demanding Apple share out more of its $137bn (£87bn) cash pile to its investors.

It may be possible to use a patient's own skin to repair the damage caused by multiple sclerosis, which is currently incurable say researchers.

MPs criticise the test used to see whether disability benefit claimants are fit to work - but ministers dismiss their report as "scaremongering".

With Netflix investing millions in creating its own TV shows, why Amazon and Microsoft are also joining the TV game.

The BBC's Africa Correspondent Karen Allen reports that weeks before Kenyans go to the polls one presidential candidate - who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court - has called for his trial at the Hague to be postponed.

BBC political correspondent Iain Watson explains how European Union leaders know exactly which microphone to find when they arrive on the red carpet at summits.

Racing journalist Derek Thompson recalls how he was summoned from his bed to try to free the wonder horse, Shergar.

Cross-border co-operation on terrorism and crime will be compromised unless the UK updates the technology it uses for DNA profiling, experts warn.

Updated plans for a controversial wind farm at a beauty spot near Swansea are approved by councillors, nearly a year after the original project was blocked by the appeal court.

French car maker PSA Peugeot Citroen writes down the value of its assets by 4.1bn euros to reflect the worsening state of Europe's car market.

A post-mortem examination carried out in Mexico on a teenager indicates he was hit from behind by several bullets when a US Border Patrol agent opened fire.

Candidates in the Russian space agency's cosmonaut training competition have been given their first real endurance test at Russia's specialist training centre.

Photography students in Cardiff and Newport

A ferry carrying around 100 people capsizes in a river near the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, reports say, with a number of people missing.

The bishops who lead the Church of England are to include female clergy in their meetings for the first time.

Yemen's president calls on Iran to stop backing armed groups in his country after coastguards seized a ship carrying missiles and rockets.

China reports better-than-expected trade data, fuelling optimism that its economic growth may be rebounding from the recent slowdown.

Cheap alternative street parades boom ahead of official Rio carnival

After a spate of deadly shark attacks off the coast of Recife in north-eastern Brazil, locals are paying fishermen to catch and kill sharks.

Researchers using a vast database of physical and genetic data determine the ancestor of all placental mammals was small, furry and probably ate insects.