Hundreds of thousands of heart patients could benefit from new blood thinning drugs to cut their risk of stroke, guidelines recommend

EU leaders begin summit talks in Brussels with Germany resisting pressure to launch eurobonds as a way to ease the debt crisis and revive growth.

Sir Derek Jacobi, Dame Judi Dench, Sir Paul McCartney and David Hockney are among the leading cultural figures joining the Queen at a reception in London.

People who repeatedly fail to fill in forms registering to vote could be fined as part of a shake-up of the system, ministers announce.

Queens Park Rangers captain Joey Barton is banned for 12 matches following a Football Association hearing.

An ancient creature thought to be the first to step on land could not have walked on four legs, 3D computer modelling shows.

A book about the death of a British officer in Afghanistan, once pulped by the Ministry of Defence, is awarded the Orwell Prize for political writing.

Internet giant Google did not infringe patents belonging to software developer Oracle, a court in California has ruled.