In what is billed as the most significant meeting in years, UN members are discussing the global drugs problem - but sharp divisions have been exposed.

A major trial is set to start in Scotland aimed at preventing type-1 diabetes in children

A council approves plans to ban thousands of its employees from smoking cigarettes and e-cigarettes in its buildings, on its land and in vehicles.

Motorcycle gunmen shoot dead seven policemen in the Pakistani city of Karachi in the latest attack against polio vaccination.

A billboard that smells of human sweat and breath in order to attract and kill mosquitoes has been designed in Brazil.

A baby boy has now gone home safe and well after his brain-dead mother was kept alive on life support so he could be born, Polish authorities say.