Good GCSE and A-level results can open doors to university and future jobs, but the majority of parents offer their children extra incentives for good grades, with prizes ranging from holidays to cars.
The US Olympic Committee has been forced to apologise for the behaviour of two US swimmers who fabricated a story about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio.
As government policies continue to prop up the housing bubble in the UK, Australia has started to see prices fall, with a 0.5 percent decline in the national median house price in the year to March.
UK mobile networks have begun offering data caps of 20GB or more to their customers in response to a rising demand for music and video streaming services.
Changes to personal injury legislation have resulted in victims in England and Wales being denied £1.3bn in 2014/15, according new research.