High-speed 'space wedge' on track

The European Space Agency (Esa) is pressing ahead with its re-entry demonstrator known as the IXV, which it expects to launch in 2013. This...

Saab says cannot pay employee wages

Swedish carmaker Saab has said it does not have enough money to pay its employees' wages. Owner Swedish Automobile said it was in discu...

Greece finalising new bail-out package, report says

Greece has agreed in principle a new bail-out package with its European partners in Vienna, according to a source cited by the Reuters agen...

Global war on drugs has 'failed' say former leaders

The global war on drugs has "failed" according to a new report by group of politicians and former world leaders. The Global Commi...

Sepp Blatter wins re-election as president of Fifa

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has been voted in for a fourth term in office. The 75-year-old Swiss was the only candidate in Wednesday's ...

The charges against Ratko Mladic

The Hague - Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military leader captured in Serbia on Thursday, faces charges of genocide, crimes agains...

Geometry skills are innate, Amazon tribe study suggests

Tests given to an Amazonian tribe called the Mundurucu suggest that our intuitions about geometry are innate. Researchers examined how the...

Colombia security forces seize massive cocaine haul

The Colombian security forces say they have seized a massive haul of cocaine in the port city of Cartagena. Sniffer dogs found more than 1...