Sportswear maker Nike saw its quarterly income rise, helped by continuing strong demand for its branded products.

Prosecutors argued that Pte Bradley Manning had contact with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, on the fifth day of his pre-trial hearing.

Banks in Cuba begin offering loans to individual citizens, in the latest free-market reform designed to revive the island's socialist economy.

A committee of MPs says ministers must end the "default yes" to development within their changes to the planning system in England.

A recording of David Bowie on Top of the Pops, which was thought to have been destroyed, will be seen for the first time since its original 1973 broadcast.

The authors of two controversial bird flu studies reportedly agree to redact key details after the US says the data could be used by terrorists.

More than 500 viewers who said a television advert for a mobile phone shop showing a ghost-like girl was "distressing" have their complaints rejected.

The Oscar awarded to Orson Welles' 1941 for writing the classic film Citizen Kane sells at auction in California for about $861,000 (£549,000).