The number of adults with diabetes in the world has more than doubled since 1980, a new study warns.

Applicants for teacher training in England will be barred if they fail numeracy and literacy tests three times, say ministers.

Coldplay perform Clocks during their encore at the festival on Saturday

Patients are taken to safety as a large fire at a hospital in Derbyshire closes its emergency department.

Two British Airways pilots are questioned by police after a mobile phone was allegedly thrown from a plane on to an airport runway.

U2 made their first appearance at the Glastonbury music festival, as the Pyramid Stage's headline act on Friday night.

Prominent Chinese dissident Hu Jia is freed after three and a half years in prison, his wife says, days after the release of artist Ai Weiwei.

Police are seeking permission to get hold of a tape recording the Sunday Times says is of Energy Secretary Chris Huhne discussing a speeding incident with his ex-wife.