A few days ago, the athlete who will carry the torch on its first leg in Cornwall was named.

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VIDEO: Ainslie on being the UK’s first torchbearer

BBC One’s Breakfast programme makes its first broadcast from its new base at Salford Quays after moving from London.

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BBC Breakfast makes Salford move

A shop selling equipment to grow cannabis at home opens its first US East Coast outlet in Washington DC, just a few miles from the White House.

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Weed-growing shop in US capital

Oxford University’s Internet Institute has published its first digital, interactive textbook for students – which will also be free to the public.

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Oxford develops digital textbook

The online urban guide Yelp surprised market-watchers Friday morning by breaking out in its first day of public trading and jumping nearly 60 percent to a high of $26 per share around 10 a.m. The company had priced shares at $15 on Thursday night. As of 11 a.m., the company was trading at $24.49 per share. Read full article > >

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Yelp stock jumps in early trading, but is it a sure thing?

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Terrell Stoglin scored 20 points, Sean Mosley had 15, and Maryland beat Wake Forest, 70-64 , Wednesday night for its first Atlantic Coast Conference victory under coach Mark Turgeon. Read full article > >

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Maryland vs. Wake Forest: Terrapins withstand second-half charge by Demon Deacons to win, 70-64

The NHS is prioritising emergency and urgent care in a bid to cope with its first national walkout by hospital staff for 20 years.

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Strike hits non-urgent NHS care

The latest Call of Duty breaks sales records for a videogame, grossing more than £490m in its first five days on sale.

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Call of Duty breaks sales records

The U.S. Navy is confronting any number of strategic challenges as it seeks to rein in costs and cope with an aging fleet of ships and planes. And, then, on a new ship, there’s the issue of the toilets. The USS George H.W. Bush , built at a cost of $6.2 billion and deployed on its first combat mission only last spring, has experienced chronic plumbing problems for months, with the faltering of its vacuum-based system repeatedly leading to toilet outages. Read full article > >

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Naval ship faces chronic toilet outages at sea

Florence and the Machine go straight to number one in the UK with the band’s second album Ceremonials, which sold more than 90,000 copies in its first week.

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Florence album takes number one

The jury ends its first day considering the case against the doctor charged over the death of singer Michael Jackson, and will return on Monday.

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No quick verdict in Murray trial

“The X Factor” finally heads into its live competition rounds next week, with one more contestant than expected — and far fewer viewers. Five weeks into its first season, Simon Cowell’s singing competition for Fox is averaging 12 million viewers. That’s not the ratings behemoth that Cowell anticipated last summer, when he told a trade publication before the premiere that he’d consider anything fewer than 20 million viewers a “disappointment.” Read full article > >

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‘X Factor’ audience 8 million smaller than Simon Cowell’s prediction

“The X Factor” finally heads into its live competition rounds next week, with one more contestant than expected — and far fewer viewers. Five weeks into its first season, Simon Cowell’s singing competition for Fox is averaging 12 million viewers. That’s not the ratings behemoth that Cowell anticipated last summer, when he told a trade publication before the premiere that he’d consider anything fewer than 20 million viewers a “disappointment.” Read full article > >

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‘X Factor’ audience 8 million smaller than Simon Cowell’s prediction

RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire will host its first military repatriation later when the body of a Berkshire soldier is returned to the UK.

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First body due into Brize Norton

Parents who lose a baby before its first birthday are more likely to die early themselves, according to a study.

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Broken heart link in parent study