By now the trajectory of any story about stock in tech giant Apple should be familiar. It goes up; soars; jumps. You buy an iPhone and Steve Jobs' replacement periodically presents a smaller, svelter iSomething that makes you want another one - and the stock rockets again. At least, this was the case, but now the rhythm might be changing. Apple's stock price took another hit on Monday - and Matt Zeitlin over at the Daily Beast has fascinating insight on the company's "continuing decline". 

Thousands of Shia Muslims began burying their dead in a mass grave in Pakistan today, ending a three-day protest over one of the worst sectarian attacks in the country’s history.

There's a lot being said at the moment about the shocking amount of food that gets wasted each day as perfectly good produce gets binned.

Update your denim for spring by shaking up the cut and colour, or layer tone on tone for a fresh take on this old favourite

Never mind the controversy feel the fiction

Global Outlook The defence group BAE is among the biggest British spenders on Washington lobbying, splurging $3.5m in 2012. Over the past five years, it's spent some $24m, according to OpenSecrets. That's twice as much as even Barclays did during the aftermath of the banking crisis. Rolls-Royce, another big supplier to the US military, spent $7.3m over that period.

Hunt on for killers after three women who supported the Kurdish separatist movement are executed in their office

Fans will be able to 'vote in' a more up-to-date replacement piece

Cirque du Soleil offers a bewildering mix of the bland and the flat-out terrifying. As so often with this company, the clowning and the framing devices are all bombast. The acrobatic acts, when at last we get to them, are so scarily brave that I wanted to watch the aerialists and the wheel of death through my fingers.

"It's surprising how physical those spoons were," Geoff Richardson confesses after his feverish spoon-playing on the giddy "Golf Girl", a song about affairs of the heart on a Canterbury golf course.

Speculation over who will succeed Cynthia Carroll as Anglo American's chief executive ended yesterday as AngloGold Ashanti boss Mark Cutifani was appointed to what has been dubbed "the toughest job in mining".

Bradford stand in way of final place

We’re all feeling the pinch at this time of year, but that doesn’t mean you can’t reboot the contents of your beauty bag

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