Researchers show that an idea to produce high-quality rainfall maps using nothing more than mobile phone mast signals works - across a whole country.

The Argentine government has ordered a two-month price freeze on all products in the country's main supermarket chains.

The Canadian penny is withdrawn from circulation as production costs exceed its monetary value, although it will remain legal tender.

Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who was shot and wounded by the Taliban in Pakistan after campaigning for womens' rights, says she has been given a 'second life'.

Banks will be broken up if they do not follow new rules to ring-fence risky investment operations from High Street operations, the chancellor has announced.

Anger at new case of Egyptian police brutality

A rock which weighs about as much as an aircraft carrier is approaching Earth - but there is no danger of a direct strike.

Greece launches an inquiry into whether four suspected bank robbers were beaten in police custody, after their altered mug shots are released.

Three-year-old Dylan Hall became an internet sensation in Thailand after his parents posted a video of him on YouTube reciting the Thai alphabet.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad volunteers to become the first person sent into space by his country's fledgling space programme.

The case of an IRA informer who said he was abandoned by MI5 is rejected by a tribunal which considers complaints against the security services.

An all-girl rock group in Indian-administered Kashmir say they have disbanded after being called "un-Islamic" by the region's most senior cleric.

India has a long religious and cultural tradition of vegetarianism, but as the disposable income of the country's middle-class rises so too are demands for western-style meat dishes.

India and Nepal begin their first joint survey of tigers in the Terai Arc, hoping to chart how many Royal Bengal tigers remain in the shared region.

The new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is confirmed in the role at St Paul's Cathedral and maintains his opposition to gay marriage.

Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy fiercely denies corruption allegations as he pledges to battle on against Spain's worst financial crisis in recent years.

A man who threw a plastic beer bottle on to the track at the start of the men's Olympic 100m final is given an eight-week community order.

Burma's government and ethnic Kachin rebels reach a deal that could pave the way for an end to their conflict.

John Kerry begins his first day as US secretary of state, joking he has "big heels to fill" and pledging the safety of staff will be his priority.

A British charity is teaching Colombians to locate and safely detonate landmines in their neighbourhoods.