Drugs that switch on vitamin A in the body may also help stave off conditions such as motor neurone disease (MND), raising hopes of new treatments, research suggests. Scientists found drugs which ...

GfK’s Consumer Confidence Index fell seven points to minus 20, with significant drops in predictions for personal finances and the general economy.

Three out of four primary school teachers think children’s physical activity is declining, research suggests. Half of 500 teachers surveyed said they believe fewer than one in two children in their ...

The same day as the call, in an attack widely blamed on Israel, thousands of pagers belonging to Hezbollah militants exploded.

While rising living costs have seen consumers cutting back and retail sales as a whole up 0.1% year-on-year in August, spending on health and beauty was up 7.3% – significantly higher than ...

Cancer Research UK is calling on the Government to commit to a long-term cancer strategy to make sure waiting times are met.

The coast guard opened a public hearing that is part of a high-level investigation into the doomed mission earlier this month ...

Nature is coming back six years after wildfire at Smithills near Bolton, but peat will take hundreds of years to regenerate, conservationists say.

The move is part of ‘Raneem’s Law’, named after Raneem Oudeh, to transform the way the police handle cases of violence against women and girls.

A new sex assault claim has been made against Mohamed Al Fayed after an investigation into the former Harrods owner was published. The woman believes police nearly arrested him over her allegations ...

A vast area of the Antarctic Ice Sheet – Thwaites Glacier – continues to retreat and much of it could be lost by the 23rd century, experts say. The glacier spans an area equal to the island of Great ...

The death toll is rising in central Europe as receding waters reveal the huge scale of the destruction caused by ...