Ex-Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi says alleged orgies at his home were "burlesque games", during his trial on charges he paid for sex with an underage girl.

A motorway is shut after a lorry sheds its load of baked beans across three lanes of the southbound carriageway in Essex.

A group of high school students in California have launched a rubber chicken to the edge of space, all in the name of science.

The head of the Disney film studio, Rich Ross, resigns as chairman just a month after the film John Carter became one of the company's biggest flops.

The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons welcomes the decision to withdraw a breast enhancement treatment used in "lunchtime boob jobs".