The Belgian authorities are preparing to fly home the bodies of 22 children and six adults killed in a coach crash in Switzerland.

Rucksacks loaded with school books have been linked to higher levels of back pain in a study of Spanish school children.

Network Rail is fined £1m for health and safety breaches over the deaths of two teenage girls at a level crossing in Essex in 2005.

New evidence links the environment in the womb with increased body weight in later life.

The American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians on Sunday is taken out of the country, as the US defence secretary visits Afghanistan.

The rules of the new National Employment Savings Trust (Nest) pension scheme should be relaxed to make it more attractive, MPs says.

Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are top of a global league table of university reputation - in a top 100 dominated by US institutions.

Thames Water is taking months to repair leaks despite claiming an average repair time of five days.