Night work may increase a woman’s chances of developing breast cancer by 30% — a slightly elevated but “statistically significant” risk, researchers have said.

WORKING long hours is an occupational hazard when it comes to pregnancy, according to a study published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (BJOG).

TWO out of five men and almost a third of women around the world are overweight, a major population study has shown.

MORE than 19,000 people died in a heatwave that baked much of Europe in August, placing it among the worst hot-weather disasters in a century, according to official estimates