The brain's ability to function can start to deteriorate as early as 45, suggests a study in the British Medical Journal.

Unemployment in the eurozone stayed at a record high as the impact of the sovereign debt crisis rumbled on, official figures show.

The US economy created 200,000 jobs in December, while the unemployment rate fell to 8.5%, official figures show.

The two largest teaching unions have called for further improvements in the government's plans to change the teachers' pension scheme.

Women anxious about their PIP breast implants should be able to have them removed by whoever fitted them - the NHS or clinics, the government says.

JRR Tolkien was passed over for the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature after his storytelling in The Lord of the Rings was described as second rate, papers reveal.

Eleven people have died in a hot air balloon crash near the town of Carterton in New Zealand, local officials say.

China's state media warn the US against "flexing its muscles" after it unveiled a defence review switching focus to the Asia-Pacific region.