Cutting back on salty foods such as bacon, bread and breakfast cereals could reduce people's risk of developing stomach cancer, according to the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF).

A proposal to cut the pay and change the conditions of health workers in south-west England is a sign of "the chaos engulfing the NHS", Labour has said.

Drug-resistant HIV has been increasing in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade, according to experts writing in the Lancet.

Thousands of people take part in a demonstration against plans to end children's heart surgery in Leeds.