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A woman dubbed the Heroine of Hackney after being filmed confronting rioters last summer is to stand for election at her local council.

"You only have to look at the body shapes of players today and compare them to 20 years ago to see they are now athletes"

A Swiss couple held hostage by the Pakistani Taliban are free after an eight-month ordeal, the army says.

Francoise Barbira-Freedman, medical anthropologist at Cambridge University, talks about a herbal remedy for toothache, used for centuries by a remote Incan tribe in the Amazon which is being turned into a commercial treatment for dental pain.

The mayor of a town in southern Italy has banned dying because his town has run out of burial space.

Demand for leaves from an endangered palm, found in Central and South America is threatening the species' long term survival, a study warns.

School Reporters from Kingsford Community School in Beckton take a look at how one school is embracing a shift in the foreign languages students want to learn.

Rucksacks loaded with school books have been linked to higher levels of back pain in a study of Spanish school children.

The emergency department at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital has been "pushed to its limits" says a Belfast health trust director after a patient dies unnoticed on a trolley.

The daughter of an RAF man killed with 11 others in a plane crash in the Malaysian jungle in 1950 will finally see him buried with full military honours after a personal campaign.

Unemployed people in Scotland are to be entitled to claim discount rail travel from April under a new scheme.

Plaid Cymru are preparing to unveil the party's new leader, after ballot papers are counted in the contest to succeed Ieuan Wyn Jones.

Mike Nesbitt is to formally launch his bid for the UUP leadership later.

The long-delayed free trade agreement between South Korea and the US is in effect, amid protests in Seoul.

UK newspapers split over Cameron's US visit

Eight children who survived a coach crash in Switzerland fly home after some of the 28 victims' families visit the scene.

Pakistani politician Imran Khan says he will not participate in a conference in India because author Sir Salman Rushdie is due to speak there.

David Cameron and Barack Obama discussed the possibility of releasing emergency oil reserves in an effort to dampen soaring prices, the BBC learns.

A man and a woman are charged with manslaughter after the death of a two-year-old boy in a Derbyshire hospital.

US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron have exchanged toasts at a state dinner in Washington in Mr Cameron's honour