Having snails crawl across your face may sound revolting but a new beauty treatment from Tokyo is now being offered by a salon here in the UK.

Eating lots of broccoli may slow down and even prevent osteoarthritis, researchers believe.

The new chief inspector of GPs in England has been named as Prof Steve Field, former chair of the Royal College of GPs.

Chinese police offer a reward for information about an attack on a young boy whose eyes were forcibly removed, state media say.

Wales and north-west England had the highest death rates for drug misuse in 2012, according to figures for England and Wales.

Online and phone scams rose by £36m in the last financial year, driven in part by a new variation of card fraud, figures show.

Hollywood actors Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones "are taking time apart" after 13 years of marriage.

The huge Russian Railways company is to have its managers trained by Anglia Ruskin University.