BBC director general Tony Hall defends Tyson Fury's inclusion on the shortlist for Sports Personality of the Year.

Star Wars creator George Lucas says that having the European premiere of new film The Force Awakens in London is like "coming home".

Fewer patients die after emergency surgery in hospitals that have more doctors and nurses, a study suggests.

Cancer is overwhelmingly a result of environmental factors and not largely down to bad luck, a study by doctors in New York suggests.

Women are 35% more likely to go to university than men, the widest gap so far, according to annual admissions figures.

David Cameron's EU reform proposals are to be discussed by European leaders - with many said to be hostile to his bid to curb migrants' welfare payments.

The US and Cuba reach an understanding on resuming regular commercial flights between the two countries, officials in Washington and Havana say.

Staff at a jail which houses more than 600 sex offenders must be more alert to the risk of prisoner-on-prisoner sexual grooming, an inspection report says.