Apple must pay VirnetX Holding Corp more than $625m (€558m) for using the patent licencing company’s Internet security technology without permission in its FaceTime and iMessage features, a federal jury in Texas said.

Apple was told to pay $532.9m (€469m) after a federal jury in the US said its iTunes software used a company’s patented inventions without permission.

A participant in an endurance contest with a truck as its prize walked away from the event on its third day, broke into a store, found a shotgun and killed himself, police said.

A father shot dead his ex-wife and another man with a high-powered rifle before being killed by police in the US.

A MOTHER who smashed her sons’ heads with heavy rocks, killing two of the boys, was so deluded she thought the Lord told her to do it, her lawyer said in opening statements at her murder trial.