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Nigeria makes a vital step towards being declared polio free in 2017, after marking a year without a recorded case of the disease.

The world's biggest video game tournament company launches an anti-doping scheme, after a top player admits taking a performance-enhancing drug.

US President Obama tells the BBC he will continue to deliver his "blunt message" about gay rights and discrimination on his trip to Kenya and Ethiopia.

Taxi-booking app Uber is hit with £198m joint legal action by taxi drivers in Canada's biggest city Toronto.

As thousands head off on their summer holidays, air traffic control in the UK is expecting its busiest day.

Engineers and physicists have discovered a property of silicon which could aid the development of faster computers.

President Obama tells the BBC he will deliver a blunt message on gay rights and discrimination when he travels to Africa.

The first ever vaccine for malaria has been approved by the European Medicines Agency, meaning it is close to being introduced for use in Africa.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Friday finalized a deal to cut tariffs on $1 trillion (£644bn) worth of information technology products.

The world's first malaria vaccine has cleared one of the final regulatory hurdles prior to being used to immunise children in sub-Saharan Africa.