Lawyers acting for a Irish hospital where Savita Halappanavar died say staff will dispute claims that she was refused an abortion on religious grounds.

Baroness Thatcher, the UK's first female prime minister, continues to be remembered at home and abroad after her death at the age of 87.

The half-million strong Girlguiding movement has added its voice to a campaign to persuade The Sun newspaper to drop its Page Three topless pin-ups.

Men with prostate cancer and an inherited BRCA2 gene mutation have the most aggressive form of disease, research reveals.

Scientists say they have traced the root genetic cause of leukaemia back to life in the womb.

A chemical found in red meat explains why eating too much steak, mince and bacon is bad for the heart, say US scientists.

The new system of disability benefits begins for new claimants in some areas, as critics express fears that support will be reduced.

Uhuru Kenyatta is set to be sworn in as Kenya's new president, but Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir, facing an ICC arrest warrant, will not attend.