Chinese runner dropped by sponsor after riding bike during marathon

Sun Yuanyuan was seemingly pictured on the back of another person's bike during part of the Berlin Marathon.

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Watch: Riot police clash with school protesters and use tear gas in France

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across France amid a wave of protests by high-school pupils.

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'Ghost particles' from space telescope wins physics Nobel

Belgian physicist Prof Francis Halzen has won for his pioneering work on an observatory that detects particles from space.

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Nobel Prize awarded for revealing inner workings of the brain

US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded for their work.

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Spain PM pins hopes on housing crisis to help win snap election

Calling of a snap election was not a knee-jerk reaction from Pedro Sánchez but a carefully thought-out manoeuvre, Guy Hedgecoe reports from Madrid.

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Christa Pike's prognosis still unclear after failed execution, lawyer says

Pike's lawyer says doctors are still trying to clear two lethal doses of pentobarbital from her body.

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US Marine arrested over murder of woman in Okinawa, Japan

Japan's government lodged a formal protest with the US, demanding that military officials take action.

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