The number of people in the UK who will get cancer during their lifetime will increase to nearly half the population by 2020, a report suggests.

Laws controlling pornography in England and Wales need to be strengthened to make it illegal to download staged images of rape, campaigners say.

A comet's extremely close encounter with the Sun gives scientists a look at a region that has never been visited by spacecraft.

A DNA blood test for Down's syndrome could be given earlier in pregnancy than current checks, research suggests.

The United Nations launches the largest appeal in its history, saying it needs $5bn (£3.2bn; 3.7bn euros) for humanitarian aid to Syria.

Six men who planned a terror attack on an English Defence League rally were reacting to "calculated insults" made by the group, a court hears.

Vodafone, the world's second largest mobile phone firm, paid no UK corporation tax for a second year running in 2012.

More than 200,000 extra doses of the MMR vaccine have been ordered by GPs in England since efforts to vaccinate one million children started.