The blobfish, a threatened gelatinous deep-sea fish, wins a public vote as ugliest animal.

A Norwegian school appeared to have been vandalised, until CCTV footage showed the culprits were a family of moose.

The process of selling off a majority stake in Royal Mail will begin on Thursday morning, the BBC's Newsnight programme has learned.

Some of the most dangerous prisoners in England and Wales are not being properly risk assessed before they are freed, a report from probation and prison inspectors finds.

Children should not start formal school lessons until the age of six or seven, a group of influential educationalists says.

Scientists have tested a vaccine that appears to be effective against the primate equivalent of HIV.

Madeleine McCann's mother Kate is expected to attend a Portuguese court later for the start of the family's libel action against a former local police chief.

The era of patients being shunted around NHS hospitals needs to end, an expert group says.