Strong sales of Galaxy phones propelled Samsung's quarterly profit to a record high, but its shares dropped today on the prospect its growth would slow in an increasingly crowded smartphone market.

A Soyuz spacecraft with two Americans and a Russian on board lifted off from Kazakhstan today for the international space station.

Detectives from the North today arrested a man in Hong Kong over the murder of a pregnant waitress in Belfast eight years ago.

A man believed to be the world’s oldest man has died at the age of 122 in eastern Cambodia.