The NHS could save £400m a year if a blood flow monitor, developed in the UK, was used more during surgery, health watchdog NICE says.

University language departments are warning that an increase in tuition fees in England will threaten their ability to recruit students.

Seawater near Japan's crippled Fukukshima nuclear plant is said to have a higher level of radioactive iodine than previously reported.

A tongue-in-cheek Twitter user giving 'updates' on a deadly Egyptian cobra missing from a New York zoo now has some 35,000 followers.

A girl and a man are critically ill in hospital after a shooting at a grocery shop in south London.

Labour Party leader Ed Miliband is to marry his long-term partner Justine Thornton in May, it is announced.

Japan is to decommission four of the quake-hit reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, after failing to bring them under control.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is expected to address the nation in his first speech since anti-government demonstrations erupted two weeks ago.