Canadian authorities charge a man with second-degree murder in the death of Tina Fontaine, one of many women found dead in Winnipeg's Red River.

Cuba and the United States agree to restore a direct postal service, suspended 52 years ago at the height of the Cold War.

The future for adult social care services in England "looks bleak", the International Longevity Centre warns, despite government attempts to protect budgets.

All the Taliban gunmen involved in a deadly attack on a foreign guesthouse near the Spanish embassy in Kabul have been killed, Afghan officials say.

A new gene therapy technique is able to genetically modify prostate cancer cells so that a patient's body attacks and kills them, US scientists have discovered.

Festivities planned in Cumbria this weekend go ahead despite the devastation of Storm Desmond.

Spanish police say they have seized dozen of pallets made out 1.4 tonnes of compressed cocaine that was made to look like wood.

Six men from Liverpool are arrested in connection with the seizure of millions of pounds of cocaine in a shipment disguised as slabs of wood and sacks of charcoal.