Cervical cancer rates are almost 90% lower in women vaccinated against HPV, a new study has found.

Police in Western Australia have released audio of the moment Cleo Smith was discovered in a locked house and rescued by police.

A cabinet minister has questioned the future of parliament's sleaze investigator after her recommendation of a 30-day suspension for a Conservative MP was blocked by the prime minister and his Tory colleagues.

COVID infections are at their highest ever recorded levels according to new research, which has been tracking cases since May 2020.

Scores of major coal using countries like Poland, Ukraine and Vietnam have committed to phase out the fossil fuel, in a series of commitments announced at the COP26 climate talks.

The sight of an extremely rare radiated tortoise inching its way along the dusty curb of a road in southern Madagascar is emblematic of what the country is going through.

Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer has claimed her client's treatment in a New York jail "rivals scenes of Hannibal Lecter's incarceration in the movie Silence of the Lambs, despite the absence of the cage and plastic face guard".

The Bank of England will decide today on whether to raise interest rates for the first time in three years.

Former England cricketer Gary Ballance has admitted using a racial slur against ex-Yorkshire teammate Azeem Rafiq.

The founder of Microsoft has warned of bioterrorist attacks and has urged world leaders to use "germ games" to prepare for them.