It's only a couple of months or so since I was last in Cuba, and conditions then were pretty dire: power cuts, large queues for bread and fuel, state-run grocery stores virtually empty, mounting piles of rubbish on street corners, and few foreign vis...

Rugby league legend John Kear has died "suddenly", a day after commentating on the Challenge Cup final.

A 13-year-old girl has died after being rescued from a river, as the number of deaths in open water in the UK over the last eight days reached 17, following a record-breaking May heatwave. 

There has been a sharp decline in the use of vapes in the UK a year on from the government ban on single-use devices - but campaigners have warned that millions are still being binned.

A new pill helped to double the survival time for patients with an advanced and aggressive form of pancreatic cancer when compared to chemotherapy, a trial has found.

Two more children's sand kits have been removed from sale after testing found they contained asbestos.

Five people have recovered from a rare type of Ebola virus, the head of the World Health Organisation said - as suspected cases were investigated in Brazil and Italy.

Scores of people have been killed following a blast at a building in northeastern Myanmar.

A police officer has been seriously injured after being hit by a stolen PSNI car.