The son of ex-world athletics chief Lamine Diack is one of three men banned for life over doping cover-up claims involving Liliya Shobukhova.

Developers that fail to swiftly build properties for which they have planning permission should face stiff penalties, the Local Government Association says.

Rising levels of obesity could be linked to an additional 670,000 cases of cancer in the next 20 years, a report by Cancer Research UK predicts.

Dozens of police officers around the UK have been injured while using so-called stinger devices, the BBC learns.

Over 10,000 vacancies for nursing posts in London were unfilled in 2015, new figures from the Royal College of Nursing show.

A state of emergency is declared after a leak at a huge natural gas repository spews methane over Los Angeles for months.

Police in Germany must adjust their tactics following attacks on women in Cologne on New Year's Eve, a senior official says.

Academics at Oxford University are using Voltaire and other historical defenders of free speech to mark the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris.