The global pharmaceutical industry is being called on to pay for a $2bn innovation fund to revitalise research into antibiotics.

Bank of England governor Mark Carney, speaking in a BBC interview, dismisses fears that cheap foreign labour has reduced UK productivity.

A woman who helped supply her best friend with the gas she used to kill herself is found not guilty of assisting her suicide.

A chemotherapy drug can extend the lives of patients with advanced prostate cancer by nearly two years, a major "game-changing" study shows.

ITV staff are staging a 24-hour strike and planning a protest outside the broadcaster's annual meeting, in a dispute over pay.

Rival groups of soldiers in Burundi are vying for control of the capital amid confusion over the success of an attempted coup.

Palmyra, one of the archaeological jewels of the Middle East, is reported to be under threat from advancing Islamic State militants in Syria.

TV presenter Claudia Winkleman relives the "horrific" Halloween costume fire that injured her daughter last year, saying: "We couldn't put her out."