Government and business websites around the world were taken down in a bid to protect organisations after a critical software update was issued over vulnerabilities in programming language.

Scientists have found clues that could help predict who will develop aggressive prostate cancer many years in advance.

A man who was found guilty of his role in a gangland shooting that left a nine-year-old girl with a bullet lodged in her brain has been ordered to pay her compensation.

Three more people have been arrested over the death of Alisha Samuels in Manchester.

A man accused of assaulting three Jewish women allegedly punched one of them in the face while she was pushing her daughter in a pram, a court heard.

Pharmacy leaders have called for prescription charges to be scrapped in England.