Apple reports better-than-expected results, with profits almost doubling in first three months of the year to $11.6bn (£7.2bn).

The owners of car maker Lotus, which employs 1,200 staff, is in talks with a Chinese firm about a possible sale, an MP reveals in the House of Commons.

Nearly half of people aged over 50 will have to work and save for 11 years beyond state pension age to keep their standard of living, a report says.

A confused driver ends up trapping his car on the steps of a metro station in Paris, after mistaking it for the entrance to an underground car park.

Two more US Secret Service agents resign in the wake of the Colombia sex scandal, bringing the number to have left the agency to eight.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney aims for a clean sweep in five US primaries, which could force dogged rival Newt Gingrich from the race.

The Cutty Sark is to be reopened by the Queen in Greenwich later after undergoing a £50m restoration.

The bulk of the £9.8bn the NHS spends on diabetes each year is wasted - and the disease could cost it a sixth of its entire budget by 2035, says a report.