A pill designed to reduce alcohol consumption among problem drinkers is recommended in draft guidance by NICE - the body approving drugs in England and Wales.

GP out-of-hours services in England are improving, but weaknesses still exist in certain areas of care, inspectors say.

The origin of the Aids pandemic has been traced back to 1920s Kinshasa, in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, scientists say.

An extra 200,000 pensioners will get help with their energy bills this winter, the government has announced.

JP Morgan says it suffered a massive cyber attack affecting 76 million private and seven million business customers in the US.

The US is to partially lift its decades-old arms embargo on providing lethal military support to Vietnam, the state department announces.

North Korea is not planning any missile or nuclear tests, the country's envoy to the UN in Geneva, So Se Pyong, is quoted as saying.

The Conservatives say they would stop British laws being overruled by human rights rulings from Strasbourg, if they win the next general election.