Detectives begin an investigation into "potential fraudulent activity" involving the Police Federation of England and Wales.

EU leaders have agreed a joint position to put to Turkey in an attempt to reach a deal over the migrant crisis, Luxembourg's prime minster says.

GPs could spend longer with their patients if physiotherapists worked alongside them at their surgery, says the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.

Health and education will be squeezed by more than £1bn because of changes to the way public sector pensions are funded, figures seen by the BBC show.

People with autism are dying earlier then the general population, often through epilepsy or suicide, a charity warns.

Physicists studying the motion of sperm discover that the little swimmers flock together in tight groups if the surrounding fluid is "viscoelastic".

More action is needed to recall Whirlpool's fire-risk tumble dryers before someone dies, according to a leading Trading Standards officer.

Seven years on from the disappearance of York chef Claudia Lawrence, her mother believes she is alive and "being held somewhere against her will".