Mexico's attorney general insists that 43 students who disappeared four months ago were killed and their bodies burnt and disposed of.

Apple's first quarter profit of $18bn is the biggest ever quarterly profit for a public company, according to Standard and Poor's.

Researchers say offering financial incentives worth £400 to pregnant smokers makes them more likely to quit the habit.

Football clubs spent a record £2.7bn in international transfers in 2014, with English football clubs accounting for £795m of the total

A judge in the southern Spanish city of Granada charges 10 Roman Catholic priests and two Catholic lay workers with child sex abuse.

More than a million adults in the UK may be wrongly diagnosed as asthmatic and be receiving unnecessary medication as a result, warns an NHS watchdog.

The president of the World Bank warns that the world is "dangerously unprepared" for future pandemics like the deadly Ebola outbreak.

PM Shinzo Abe condemns a "despicable" Islamic State threat to kill hostage Kenji Goto within 24 hours, saying Japan is working for his release.