Defending champion Serena Williams invites a five-year-old boy with terminal cancer to Wimbledon after following him on Twitter.

Ed Miliband is seeking to change his party's rules so that he can choose who he wants to sit in the shadow cabinet.

A hospital boss refuses to apologise for sending an e-mail to staff warning they might not get paid due to a financial 'crisis'.

Scotland is again placed at the top of the United Nations league for cocaine consumption, well ahead of England and Wales.

Northern Ireland's police did not properly investigate the murders of six people in a County Down bar in 1994, a report has said.

More than a quarter of firefighters may leave their pension scheme if their pension contributions are forced up, their union claims.

Drugs used by half of elderly people have been linked to a greater risk of death and declining brain function.

An extreme eight-week diet can reverse Type 2 diabetes in people newly diagnosed with the disease, says a study.