Waste company 'bullying clients' - A waste company stands accused of bullying small businesses by using unfair contracts to ramp up charges, the BBC has learned. [BBC Business]
Greece unity talks hit stalemate - The latest attempts to form a Greek government are said to be deadlocked, raising the prospect of fresh elections and more eurozone uncertainty. [BBC Business]
Google brings instant answers to search results - Type in 'Mona Lisa', and a biography appears right on the page (on the right hand side), type in 'Leonardo DiCaprio' and you get a list of his films, and suggested related searches. [Daily Mail IT]
Sixth of cancers due to infection - One in six cancers - two million a year globally - are caused by largely treatable or preventable infections, new estimates suggest. [BBC Health]
New car sales rise 3.3% in April - New car sales in the UK rose to 142,322 in April, up 3.3% from a year earlier, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders says. [BBC Business]
Stewart Parvin, left, has revealed that the monarch does not perspire. He also tells how she has a servant to wear in her shoes for her and that she wears an extra shoulder pad to help her look good.
Heralded as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a number of torch bearers have already taken to the internet auction site to sell their piece of history.
Mike Stock, one third of 80s songwriting trio Stock, Aitken and Waterman, said modern U.S. performers resort to sexually-charged pop videos because they don't have much 'of a sell'.
Aesha Mohammadzai, pictured, whose mutilated face came to embody the appalling abuse perpetrated by the brutal Taliban regime, had been struggling to adapt to life in the U.S.
An annular eclipse, in which the Moon does not fully block out the light from the Sun, begins across east Asia, and is due to reach the western US later.
