Accounting firm Ernst & Young (EY) is to pay out $9.3m (£7.1m) to settle charges that two of its former auditors got "too close to clients on a personal level", according to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have pledged $3bn (£2.3bn) to fund medical research over the next decade.

Oxford University has come top of the Times Higher Education world university rankings - a first for a UK university.

Police in the Philippines have been warned not to take selfies or pick their noses while on duty, it's reported.

Animal welfare charity, Animals Asia, has said the UK's Yorkshire Wildlife Park would be a suitable new home for a "lonely" polar bear named Pizza who is living in a Chinese mall.

A suspicious device found near a New Jersey railway station exploded as a bomb squad was attempting to disarm it with a robot, officials say.

The death of a young Chinese actress who initially rejected chemotherapy in favour of traditional Chinese medicine has sparked a national debate.