The leaders of Sudan and South Sudan reaffirm their commitment to setting up a buffer zone on their shared border and resuming oil exports.

Honduras sacks its ambassador to Colombia, Carlos Rodriguez, after a wild alcohol-fuelled Christmas party on embassy premises.

Totally blind mice have had their sight restored by injections of light-sensing cells into the eye, UK researchers report.

Activity in the UK's services sector fell for the first time in two years in December, a survey suggests, raising fears for the economy.

There will be no turning back on removing child benefit from better-off families, David Cameron says, ahead of a mid-term review of the coalition's progress.

Changes in the way NHS staff are trained are expected to be recommended by an inquiry into the deaths of hundreds of people at Stafford Hospital.

The relics of a 19th Century Italian saint stop off in Liverpool as part of a world tour.

A 56-year-old man dies after his parachute apparently failed to open during a jump in Perthshire.