Death rates following hip replacement surgery fell by half in England and Wales between 2003 and 2011, a study in The Lancet finds.

At least 17 people are killed in a bus bombing near the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say.

Scientists pinpoint a key difference in ballet dancers' brains so they avoid feeling dizzy when they spin.

Kenya's security chiefs are summoned to appear before parliament for questioning over the Westgate mall siege, in which at least 67 people died.

Chancellor George Osborne asks the Bank of England to take a bigger role in ensuring his Help to Buy housing scheme does not fuel a property boom.

Google unveils an upgrade to the way it interprets users' search requests, the search engine's first major revamp for three years.

Golfers at a course in Verbier in Switzerland have had an unusual interruption to their games.

John Williams' Star Wars theme has been voted as the UK's favourite film soundtrack by BBC Radio 3 listeners.