New Zealand says it will put all tobacco products into plain packaging, following the landmark move by Australia last year.

Fizzy drinks should be heavily taxed and junk food adverts banished until after the TV watershed, doctors say, in a call for action over obesity.

Injured military personnel who have legs amputated are to be given the most up-to-date prosthetic limbs after the government set aside £6.5m.

The environment secretary is set to meet food retailers and trade bodies later to establish what is being done to restore consumer confidence.

Save The Children says that more than 800,000 children could be saved each year if mothers breastfed immediately after birth.

Fizzy drinks should be heavily taxed and junk food adverts banished until after the watershed, doctors have said, in a call for action over obesity.

A decision on the closure of four Accident and Emergency (A&E) units in west and north-west London will be made later.

A patient infected with a new respiratory illness similar to the deadly Sars virus has died in the UK.