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The European Commssion says Google's practices breach competition rules, while the company says it disagrees and mulls an appeal. Google has been ordered to pay a record fine of £2.1bn (€2.42bn) for abusing its dominance as a search engine to boost its shopping comparison service. The European competition watchdog said the company had breached anti-trust rules. It said Google's search engine had systematically given prominence to its own comparison shopping service over others, so that it was displayed at or near the top of search results. The company has been ordered to end the conduct at the centre of the European Commission probe or face penalty payments of up to 5% of the average daily turnover of parent company Alphabet. Google said it "respectfully" disagreed with the ruling and would review the decision in detail as it considers an appeal. Its shares were 1% lower in early US deals. Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition

Researchers test different sounds on some 100 volunteers, who find quacking to be more pleasant than cars' normal angry honks. Researchers are tackling sound pollution from loud car horns by developing a beep which apparently sounds like a duck's quack. The pleasant-sounding horn is designed to alert people to danger while not stressing out others within the vicinity. A quacking sound was chosen after different sounds were tested on 100 volunteers and it was found to be the most friendly for pedestrians passing by. The research was conducted at Soongsil University in Seoul, South Korea, and looked at the development of the vehicle klaxon since it was first introduced in 1908. The classical car horn's "ah-oo-gah" remains a famous sound in early motoring, but it came to be replaced by other attention-grabbing sounds. Some of those klaxons have come to be found very irritating, however. The team of scientists set about trying to find less distres

Billionaire Elon Musk celebrates two successful rocket missions in a weekend by posting a sped up video of a landing on Instagram. Space X has pulled off the successful launch and landing of two rockets in a weekend. A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Sunday afternoon, carrying 10 communications satellites into orbit for Iridium Communications. About seven minutes later the rocket's first-stage booster made its way back to Earth, successfully landing on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk had warned the floating platform had to be moved due to "extreme weather". Sunday's rocket was a brand new one, while on Friday a refurbished booster was used. Mr Musk has said he wants to reuse multimillion dollar components instead of jettisoning them in the ocean after launch to reduce his company's costs eventually by up to a third. The company, which was founded by the billionaire,  made hi

Industry figures show a steep drop in the number of vehicles made in the UK for the domestic and export markets. The UK car industry is blaming a sharp drop in the number of vehicles manufactured last month on factory preparations for the production of new models. It marked the second month in a row that brakes were applied with some force to vehicle assembly in Britain. The car sector, which has been among the most vocal in its Brexit demands since the referendum a year ago, reported a 9.7% fall in production during May compared to the same month a year ago when growth of 26% was declared. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said 136,119 new cars were built - with the largest drop-off, in percentage terms, coming from those produced for the domestic market as prices and taxes rise on many new vehicles. But the number of cars made for export also fell, at a time when a recent report for the CBI showed the UK manufacturing sector's  order books a

The investment is the firm's biggest in the UK for more than a decade and is welcomed as a vote of confidence in the economy. Engine maker Rolls-Royce is investing £150m in UK aerospace facilities in a move that will safeguard more than 7,000 jobs. It is the Derby-based group's biggest single investment in the UK for more than a decade. The announcement was welcomed by the Government amid fears that some companies are putting off decisions due to Brexit uncertainty. Rolls-Royce said it was investing over the next few years in new and existing facilities across the East Midlands. It is creating a new facility in Derby for testing large aero engines, resulting in up to 200 jobs, while plans to close a precision machining facility in the town have been scrapped, saving 150 jobs that had previously been at risk. The announcement is part of the global group's plans to double engine production and follows months of talks with unions. They have agreed worker

A cyberattack on the parliamentary email server could have breached ministers' email accounts, it has emerged. A cyberattack on Parliament has compromised dozens of email accounts belonging to parliamentarians, according to Sky sources. On Saturday  hackers attacked the email server for Parliament . This prompted the digital security team to shut down external access to MPs and peers' email accounts, which are still unavailable. While the attack has now been contained, preliminary investigations suggest that there may have been a compromise of a large number of communications, potentially including those between constituents and their elected officials. Parliament's digital security team is continuing to investigate the attack. But a statement from a parliamentary spokesperson confirmed claims by Sky sources and stated that "significantly fewer than 1% of the 9,000 accounts on the parliamentary network" have been compromised. Those 9,000 accou

People are told to leave their homes - and tourists their campsites and hotels - as a forest fire erupts in southern Spain. Around 1,500 people have been evacuated from homes, campsites and hotels after a forest fire erupted in southern Spain. A joint military-civilian operation involving more than 150 firefighters, 11 water-dropping planes and 10 helicopters has been launched to tackle the blaze as it threatened to destroy a nature reserve. Donana National Park, which has more than 123,550 acres of wetlands and woods, is one of the country's most important nature reserves and a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is an important stop for migratory birds from Africa and Europe and is home to a variety of animals, including the highly endangered Iberian lynx and the Iberian imperial eagle. "The fire has entered in the limits of the reserve, and that is where we are focusing our efforts," Jose Gregorio Fiscal Lopez, from the regional Andalusian authority, told

Videos show swimmers racing back to shore as the shark, believed to be 8ft long, appears in shallow waters among children. Footage has emerged of the moment a blue shark washed ashore as British holidaymakers soaked up the sun on a beach in Majorca. The shark, believed to be eight feet long, sent swimmers racing for shore after it appeared in shallow waters on Cala Major beach, between Magaluf and Palma. Videos show the shark thrashing in the sand as it struggles to return to open water. Lifeguards raised red flags to clear holidaymakers out of the sea, before the Guardia Civil conducted a search of the area. The shark managed to swim back out, but was later spotted in shallow water on a beach along the coast in Can Pastilla. Crowds watched as it was pulled from the water by lifeguards, before being put down by wildlife experts from nearby Palma Aquarium. It was said to have approached the packed beaches after sustaining a serious head injury caused by a harpoon.

The SU-27 fighter jet flies so close to the US plane that the pilot can be seen in some of the images. Photographs released by the US show a Russian SU-27 jet apparently flying within a few metres of an RC-135 spy plane. The Pentagon accused Russia of  carrying out an unsafe intercept  of the reconnaissance aircraft in international airspace over the Baltic Sea earlier this week. But the photographs released by the US European Command on Friday showed just how close the fighter jet came to the US aircraft. NATO aircraft are being deployed as part of the organisation's annual Baltic Operations (BALTOPS), a multinational, maritime-focused live training event which first began in 1972, in the region close to Russia's border. Referring to the 19 June incident, the US military said that "due to the high rate of closure speed and poor control of the aircraft during the intercept, this interaction was determined to be unsafe". But according to the Russi

The casualties barely stop coming as people try to flee the final battle for control of the city, Sky's Stuart Ramsay writes. It is hard to appreciate how dreadful Mosul's old city has become. Families are being torn apart here and there is nothing that can be done to stop it. They are being murdered for just trying to live. On the edge of the old city a disused shop is an emergency room. Injured civilians targeted by Islamic State as they try to escape the fighting and the starvation are brought here. The walking survivors trudge their way up the road to safety carrying what they can. In the dilapidated shop doctors, foreign medics and volunteers struggle to deal with the influx of injured people. They are ferried here on the bonnets of humvees and in the backs of trucks. They are bundled inside. On beds the medics get to work. The floor is awash with blood. The moaning and cries of pain of the injured are only drowned out by the screams of anguish from f

The country's president Xi Jinping urges more than 400 rescue workers to "spare no effort" in their search for survivors. More than 140 people are feared buried under tonnes of rock and mud after a landslide struck in southwestern China. The mountain slip engulfed more than 40 homes and a hotel in the village of Xinmo in Maoxian county, Sichuan Province, around 6am local time on Saturday. Only three people, two of whom survived, were reported to have been pulled out of the debris with 141 still missing. A couple and their one-month-old baby are said to have escaped just as the landslide hit their house. An estimated 105 million cubic feet of rock and mud - the equivalent of more than 1,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools - slid from high up the remote mountainous area near to Tibet. More than 400 people are frantically scouring the site for other survivors, with China's president Xi Jinping calling on them to "spare no effort". TV images