The ban on smoking in public places - which came into force in 2007 in England - has cut child hospital admissions by some 11,000 a year, research suggests.

Many supposedly "healthy" fruit snacks aimed at children contain more sugar than a bag of sweets, says campaign group Action on Sugar.

Levels of unconscious racist and sexist bias have been reduced by manipulating the way the brain learns during sleep.

A woman, whose brother was killed in a car accident, has met the man who was given his face in a pioneering transplant operation.

China is trying to track at least 193 people who may have come in contact with a man with Mers - the country's first confirmed case of the virus.

A study says Germany's birth rate has slumped to the lowest in the world, prompting fears labour market shortages will damage the economy.