A "near miss" between a passenger jet and a drone has prompted a warning about using the hobby aircraft safely.

The number of suicides by UK mental health patients has reached a 10-year high, new research suggests.

The most senior woman bishop in the Church of England is being consecrated at Canterbury Cathedral later.

EL Doctorow - critically acclaimed author of novels such as Ragtime and Billy Bathgate - has died aged 84 in New York, his son says.

A police dashcam video is released showing the arrest of a woman who died three days later while in custody.

There should be substantial new investment in the NHS in England, two think tanks say.

Banning smoking in prisons in England and Wales could make them more unstable, the Prison Governors Association warns.

A woman from London has died while bungee jumping in Granada, Spanish police say.