One of the US's most senior public health officials reveals the "strongest evidence to date" of the effect on babies of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.

An Australian man is charged over the alleged kidnapping and attempted murder of two female backpackers on a beach south of Adelaide.

All criminals who plead guilty at the earliest opportunity could have their sentences cut by a third, under new plans in England and Wales.

More students from white working class backgrounds are to be targeted in a university recruitment drive

David Bowie's son Duncan Jones announces he is to become a father for the first time - revealing the news one month after the singer's death.

The BBC's director general Tony Hall is "effectively accountable to no-one", says a new report by a group of MPs.

BT says it will launch a new service later this year to divert nuisance calls within its network before they ring on customers' phones.

A 94-year former Nazi SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland is to go on trial in Germany over the murder of at least 170,000 people.