The BBC's Dougal Shaw checks out a digital carpet, that can be pre-programmed with a visual display, or take in data from the internet live.

Ireland's Padraig Harrington misses out on the US Open for the first time in 15 years, but Shane Lowry will play at Pinehurst.

The papers take the chance on their front pages to contrast the electoral cheer of Nick Farage with the gloom of Nick Clegg - along with the weather.

The government raised a record £23.9bn in additional tax this year as a result of a crackdown on tax avoidance, HM Revenue and Customs says.

Businesses are taking on more people as optimism hits its highest level since 1998, according to the business lobby group, the CBI.

Increasing numbers of British children are being registered as blind or partially sighted as more very premature babies survive, say campaigners.

Loneliness among the over-65s could be tackled by training more older people to use the internet, according to a think tank.

A senior member of France's opposition UMP party admits there were "anomalies" in the accounts of Nicolas Sarkozy's 2012 presidential campaign.