"Urgent action" is needed to give new and expectant mothers more protection at work after a "shocking" increase in discrimination, MPs say.

A disability benefits assessor who was suspended after allegedly posting abusive comments about disabled claimants on Facebook is sacked.

A television sports presenter who was in a coma after contracting malaria in Rio is back in the UK - in a stable but serious condition in a Leeds hospital.

US singer Chris Brown has been arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after a woman told police he had threatened her with a gun.

A former head of the Army has apologised to troops given an anti-malaria drug he refused to take himself because of "catastrophic" mental health effects.

A stillborn baby is cremated after being incorrectly identified by staff at a Sydney Hospital in a scandal that follows a deadly newborn "laughing gas" mix-up.

A scuba diver drowns and a girl aged 12 is injured in the sea off Cornwall.

A 17-year-old boy pulled from the sea after getting into difficulty in a dinghy dies.