A text messaging service could help people remember to take the medicines they have been prescribed, say researchers.

Surveillance laws that allow police to access the phone records of individuals are not fit for purpose, the Home Affairs Select Committee says.

Thousands of shops have failed to adapt their premises for disabled customers, with a fifth excluding wheelchair users, research finds.

About half a million people flee coastal villages in the Philippines as powerful Typhoon Hagupit heads towards areas devastated by a storm last year.

A US grand jury will consider charges in the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in New York City, as protests over other deaths continue.

The UK is establishing its first permanent military base in the Middle East since it formally withdrew from the region in 1971.

Swiss hostage Lorenzo Vinciguerra escapes from Abu Sayyaf militants who have held him for nearly three years in the Philippines, officials say.

US and Yemeni forces launch an operation to rescue British-born US hostage Luke Somers who has been held by al-Qaeda militants, reports say.