There are nearly 2,500 breaches of patient confidentiality by the NHS each year, according to an investigation by a privacy campaign group.

Packaging tactics run the risk of misleading shoppers about products and deals, according to consumer group Which?.

President Barack Obama is soon to enact a major package of reforms that would lift the threat of deportation to millions of undocumented migrants.

Lord Harris, head of an independent review into suicide in prisons, says too many people are being jailed unnecessarily, weakening resources.

Three lanes of the M25 in Surrey are closed after a section where overnight roadworks were carried out collapses during heavy rain.

Germany's economy avoids recession after growing 0.1% in the third quarter, with the eurozone as a whole expanding by 0.2%.

Police are investigating "possible homicide" linked to what a key witness describes as a paedophile ring involving powerful people in the 1970s and 1980s.

A body is found following an air and ground search for a Royal Marine who went missing in the Cairngorms National Park.