Demi Moore suffered convulsions after smoking an undisclosed substance, according to a tape of an emergency call made on Monday.

It may be possible to detect autism at a much earlier age than previously thought, say researchers.

South Sudan says it will complete its threatened shutdown of oil production on Saturday after no deal was reached with Sudan over pipeline use.

Closed sections of an Elizabethan town house in Kent featured in the work of Charles Dickens are opened to the public for one day only.

The BBC hears accounts from prison inmates in Libya suggesting that supporters of former leader Col Gaddafi are being tortured in detention.

The Royal Bank of Scotland chairman, Sir Philip Hampton, has given up a £1.4m shares reward he was due later this year, the BBC learns.

Students at Haverfordwest-based Pembrokeshire College are urged to be vigilant after a fellow student who had contracted meningitis died.

A team of demolition workers has discovered a ghostly image while knocking down a former boarding house.