Brazil's triple Formula One champion Nelson Piquet must pay £780,000 in damages for making racist and homophobic comments about Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton.

Manchester United received a fresh Qatari bid overnight - as the battle to purchase the Premier League giants intensifies.

At least 20 people have died after a powerful tornado ripped through several southern US states, destroying buildings and knocking out power.

Microchip pioneer and Intel Corp co-founder Gordon Moore has died at the age of 94.

The renowned activist investor Elliott Management is plotting a takeover of large chunks of Cineworld, the stricken London-listed cinema operator.

People have been warned to avoid Baronet semi-soft cheeses contaminated with bacteria after one person died in a listeria outbreak.

From Sellotape instead of toilet paper to strawberries in place of binbags, some of the strangest supermarket substitutions have been revealed in a new online poll. 

Two teenage boys have been charged with the murder of a 16-year-old who was stabbed to death earlier this week.

At least 15 people have died after a powerful tornado ripped through several southern US states, destroying buildings and knocking out power.

At least 10 people have died after a powerful tornado ripped through several southern US states, destroying buildings and knocking out power.