A venomous Egyptian cobra which went missing from the Bronx Zoo in New York has been found after six days, zoo officials say.

England is now the only part of the UK still charging for prescriptions as Scotland joins Wales and Northern Ireland in abolishing the fees.

Nearly 48 million women, one in three, give birth around the world each year without expert help, a report from Save the Children says.

UK government ministers say they will not reverse the Budget decision to raise taxes on North Sea oil profits.

A blind man from Suffolk involved in a car crash in which a 20-year-old woman died is sentenced to 12 years custody for her manslaughter.

Wales becomes the first part of the UK to make the morning-after pill available without charge from pharmacies, including to some girls aged under 16.

There is heavy fighting in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, between forces loyal to the UN-recognised president, Alassane Ouattara, and supporters of incumbent Laurent Gbagbo.

Speed cameras across Oxfordshire are switched back on eight months after they were turned off due to funding cuts.