EBS, one of the major currency trading platforms, is to talk to clients about putting "speed limits" on high-frequency trading.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai admits his office received secret payments from the US, but says the amounts were small and used legitimately.

Gerard Butler will face a BHA inquiry over steroid use four days after Mahmood Al Zarooni was banned.

Former world light-welterweight champion Amir Khan is targeting a world title fight next in the United States in December.

World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn rejects Mark Selby's claims that his World Championship exit was down to fatigue.

Renowned UK film studio Pinewood Shepperton announces plans to build its first US studios near Atlanta, Georgia.

Author F Scott Fitzgerald's handwritten records of his life and career are made available to fans and scholars after being put online.

Japan and Russia agree to resolve a territorial dispute which has prevented a WWII peace deal being signed, as PM Abe visits Moscow.

Rescuers at a collapsed factory in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka say they no longer hold out hopes of finding any more survivors.

The European Commission will restrict the use of pesticides linked to bee deaths by researchers, despite a split among EU states on the issue.

US consumer spending slowed in March but still rose by more than predicted, figures show, providing an unexpected boost to the economy.

Londoners Suneet Jeerh, Grant Cameron and Karl Williams are found guilty of drug offences in Dubai and jailed for four years.

Colombia is the country with the highest number of internally displaced people, according to a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council.

The troubled Darfur region in western Sudan will host the 2013 Cecafa Club Championships in June.

Sir Bradley Wiggins believes winning the Giro d'Italia could be tougher than his historic 2012 Tour de France win.

Marina Chapman claims she was raised by a group of capuchin monkeys in Colombia.

Spain has been struck by unseasonal weather which has seen snow falling across the country.

Country music legend George Jones' funeral will be held at the famous Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville and will be open to fans, it is announced.

An extreme artist has been performing aerial acrobatics from a beam hundreds of metres above a grand canyon in central China.

Botswana President Ian Khama has received stitches after a caged cheetah hurt him in a "freak accident" at an army barracks, officials say.