Recommending iodine supplements for all pregnant women could save the NHS money as well as providing overall economic benefits, say researchers.

Six children and two adults are found handcuffed and fatally shot in the head in a Texas home after the arrest of a man who exchanged fire with police.

Google, Facebook and Twitter join forces with the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation in a bid to remove millions of indecent images of children from the internet.

Nearly half of the UK's nightclubs have shut their doors in the past 10 years, figures seen by Newsbeat suggest.

Police in Ferguson, Missouri, report heavy gunfire at a protest marking the anniversary of the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.

More than 300,000 households in Lancashire are warned they may have to boil drinking water until at least Wednesday.

Two people have been killed and another seriously injured in a knife attack at an Ikea store in Vasteras in Sweden, according to police.

A propane gas tanker fire shuts the M56 motorway between junctions 12 and 14 near Chester, with trains and air travel also affected.