Creativity is often part of a mental illness, with writers particularly susceptible, say experts.

Elton John and his partner David Furnish have appeared on the red carpet for their annual Aids Foundation benefit in New York.

Smoking in the car, even with the window open, makes pollution that exceeds official "safe" limits, scientists say.

Two more drugs from a US pharmaceutical firm may be linked to an outbreak of meningitis that has killed 15 people, officials warn.

A record number of people received emergency food from UK food banks in the last six months, a charity says.

When skydiver Felix Baumgartner jumped 24 miles to earth, breaking the sound barrier, his heart rate was closely monitored.

Doctors treating Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot in the head by a Taliban gunman, say they are broadly optimistic about her treatment.

A paramedic who knocked down and killed a 70-year-old man at a pedestrian crossing in Ayrshire is ordered to perform 150 hours community service.