A groundbreaking deal for a private firm to run a struggling NHS hospital is expected to be confirmed later.

Asian shares open sharply lower following renewed fears over the eurozone debt crisis, after Italy's borrowing cost rose to a record high.

English councils have been conned out of at least £7m by criminals using information published on their own websites, a survey says.

Leaders of the largest county in the US state of Alabama vote to file for a multi-billion dollar bankruptcy, expected to be the costliest in US municipal history.

Scientists discover a new way of communicating with brain damaged patients who appear to be in a vegetative state.

Plans for universities in England to compete for some student places should be delayed, MPs on a Commons committee have said.

The western black rhino in Africa has been declared extinct by the latest assessment of threatened species.

The New Zealand government files 25 criminal charges of health and safety violations over last year's Pike River mining disaster.