Safe abortion is here to stay - but there remains much work to do, writes Dr Mike Thompson.

I’M JUST back from Slow Food Terra Madre Salone Del Gusto 2018, the biggest international event dedicated to food — 1.2m people attended in 2016.

The option of contracting commercial scanning clinics to provide an ultrasound service to women seeking an abortion, under proposed new legislation, is being considered.

Cabinet ministers Jeremy Hunt and Greg Clark have sought to reassure the pharmaceutical industry that the UK will maintain a "close working relationship" with the European Union after Brexit, amid concerns about the regulation of medicines.

Your headline article on Easter Saturday “Irish Water: Colour of hall door needed to get right water bill” might more accurately have been titled “Irish water loses their meters”.

Residents in Northern California began cleaning up after the area dodged a catastrophe, escaping a 6.5-magnitude earthquake with little more than bumps, cuts and broken glass.

Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond was in a stable condition in hospital today after being involved in a high-speed car crash while filming an apparent attempt to break the British land speed record.

Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal's acclaimed new movie, Brokeback Mountain, has been banned from a cinema in Utah due to the actors' gay sex scenes.

The US military conducted 50 secret tests of biological and chemical weapons during the 1960s, including a trial of deadly nerve agents in Britain, it emerged today.

US stocks felt the pull of political concerns yesterday, as comments from President Bush about Iraq reinforced market nervousness and muted optimism from a better-than-expected economic report.