American foreign ministers pass a motion backing the "inviolability of diplomatic missions" amid the UK and Ecuador's row over Julian Assange.

A US jury says Samsung should pay Apple more than $1bn in damages in an intellectual property row, rejecting claims Apple breached patents.

The US band play a hit-packed set lasting just under two-and-a-half hours as The Cure headline Reading Festival.

A half century from England's Jonny Bairstow helps Yorkshire defeat Sussex to reach the FL t20 final for the first time.

The Obama campaign attacks Republican candidate Mitt Romney as he alludes to a debunked theory that the president was not born in the US.

Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik and the prosecution both rule out an appeal against a court ruling sentencing him to 21 years in jail.

The UK public-infrastructure contractor Mouchel enters administration after its shareholders rejected a proposed restructuring.

BBC Two is named terrestrial channel of the year at the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival.