The latest official data suggests a record 11 applications are being made for each apprenticeship vacancy in the UK

A lack of clinical trials aimed at younger breast cancer patients could be partly to blame for the drop in longer-term survival, experts believe.

Doctors at a European meeting of anaesthetists will call for global agreement on the criteria and length of time taken to diagnose death.

The coalition says it has achieved savings of £10bn in Whitehall spending in the past financial year, a quarter more than its target.

A judge is assaulted during a sentencing hearing at Ipswich Crown Court by a man who raced from the public gallery.

Residents are trying to trace the owners of a peacock they have named Kevin, that arrived in a Derbyshire village a year ago.

A solar powered plane aiming to cross the US from the West Coast to the East Coast begins its third leg, flying from Dallas, Texas, to St Louis, Missouri.

Jose Mourinho returns for a second spell in charge of Chelsea, signing a four-year deal at Stamford Bridge.