Thresher sharks use overhead "tail-slaps" to hunt sardines, stunning and eating several fish at a time, research reveals.

The NHS in England risks "sleepwalking" into poorer quality care unless hospital and GP services are reorganised, according to its leaders

The majority of babies born in three years' time will have parents who are not married, official figures suggest.

Six protesters from Greenpeace are attempting to scale the tallest building in western Europe, The Shard.

Downing Street says designating the Faslane nuclear submarine base as sovereign British territory in the event of a yes to independence is "not credible".

Former MP Denis MacShane is to be charged with false accounting over parliamentary expenses claims, the Crown Prosecution Service says.

A Moscow court finds late Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky guilty of tax fraud in a case which has strained US-Russian ties.

A Dorset beach hut the size of a garage but without running water has gone on the market for £200,000.