The future for adult social care services in England "looks bleak", the International Longevity Centre warns, despite government attempts to protect budgets.

A new gene therapy technique is able to genetically modify prostate cancer cells so that a patient's body attacks and kills them, US scientists have discovered.

Spanish police say they have seized dozen of pallets made out 1.4 tonnes of compressed cocaine that was made to look like wood.

Two people of Syrian origin are arrested in Geneva on suspicion of making explosives and having links to jihadi groups, the Swiss authorities say.

Canadian authorities charge a man with second-degree murder in the death of Tina Fontaine, one of many women found dead in Winnipeg's Red River.

Saudi Arabia is to go to the polls for unprecedented elections in which women will cast a ballot for the first time.

Cuba and the United States agree to restore a direct postal service, suspended 52 years ago at the height of the Cold War.

All the Taliban gunmen involved in a deadly attack on a foreign guesthouse near the Spanish embassy in Kabul have been killed, Afghan officials say.