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All teenagers in Britain should be offered free vaccinations against deadly meningitis, government advisers recommended.

A mother has been found guilty of killing her baby daughter due to heat from a hairdryer.

Thousands of people have been told to leave more than a million acres of wilderness as wildfires spread.

Thousands of people have been told to leave more than a million acres of wilderness as wildfires spread.

A prisoner who was convicted of attacking two women is back in custody after escaping while being taken to hospital.

Henry Nowak's killer confessed to stabbing the teenager multiple times as he travelled in a police van with his brother just days after the murder.

A University of Aberdeen employee has been arrested and charged over social media comments about the death of Ann Widdecombe.

The sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to under-16s is to be banned in England from April next year.

The former head of Italy's motorway operator has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in the Genoa bridge collapse that killed 43 people.

A University of Aberdeen employee has been arrested and charged over social media comments about the death of Ann Widdecombe.

A mother who fears her teenage son may have died following an online challenge gone wrong has welcomed a High Court decision to order a new inquest into his death.

Henry Nowak's killer confessed to stabbing the teenager multiple times as he travelled in a police van with his brother just days after the murder.

Emergency crews have contained a wildfire in the UK's largest national park – with the blaze currently affecting a 6km-wide area.

Meta is rolling out a new safety feature that will see parents alerted if their teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with Instagram's built-in AI chatbot.

Improvements have been made to the NHS waiting list over the past year, but there are still inequalities between different ethnicities and deprivation levels.

Eleven children have been killed in a fire at an Algerian orphanage, according to authorities.

A newly discovered species of monkey with distinctive orange lips has been discovered deep in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Newborn babies across England will be tested for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) - a rare condition which causes progressive muscle wastage - from the end of this year, the Department of Health has announced.

It's feared more than 500 people have died after reports that two boats carrying persecuted Rohingya refugees capsized in the Bay of Bengal.

A British mother who abducted her two sons from their American father has been on the run in the UK for more than three months, prompting him to take court action.