A 27-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of the "commission, preparation or instigation" of acts of terrorism after police find "suspicious items" at his Birmingham home.

Writer David Nobbs, best known for creating the television character Reginald Perrin, has died, the British Humanist Association says.

Loopholes in the issuing of European Health Insurance cards could allow foreigners to charge the NHS for care in their own countries, the Department of Health admits.

Recommending iodine supplements for all pregnant women could save the NHS money as well as providing overall economic benefits, say researchers.

Farming unions will hold an "urgent summit" later to discuss milk prices following protests across the UK.

Six suspected tiger poachers are shot dead in a gunfight with Bangladeshi police in the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.

Six children and two adults are found handcuffed and fatally shot in the head in a Texas home after the arrest of a man who exchanged fire with police.

Employers who give jobs to illegal migrants will feel "the full force of government machinery", ministers warn, as immigration officers prepare raids.