Emergency legislation is to be rushed through Parliament to give effect to the historic power-sharing deal brokered in Northern Ireland.

Vietnamese authorities have speeded up Angelina Jolie's adoption of a Vietnamese boy and the Hollywood star could be able to take him home by next month, the country's top adoption official said on Wednesday.

Phillip Broadwith reports on plans to use tobacco to cure ills, not cause them

Many primary care trusts in England have cut their budget for stop smoking services, according to figures from the Conservative Party.

The actor Sylvester Stallone has been charged with importing a banned human growth hormone into Australia.

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and British lawyer David Mills are due to go on trial in Milan for perverting the course of justice.

NASA Urged to Find Ways to Deflect Smaller Threats

Tickets for the first tour in 24 years by 1980s supergroup the Police sold out within 30 minutes on Friday.

Black men in the United States are nearly seven times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than their white counterparts, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report released on Thursday

Five years ago, Sharon Schafer Bennett suffered from migraines so severe that the headaches disrupted her life, kept her from seeking a job and interfered with participation in her children's daily activities.

Some murderers are serving too long in jail, meaning prisons will become "full of geriatric lifers", Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips has said.

Apple Inc. may sell zippy notebook computers later this year that use the same type of fast memory as music players and digital cameras, driving down prices of hard-disk drives, an analyst said on Thursday.

New data obtained on the apparent celestial couple, NGC 5011 B and C, taken with the 3.6-m ESO telescope, reveal that the two galaxies are not at the same distance, as was believed for the past 23 years.

They might be giants, but many dinosaurs apparently had genomes no larger than that of a modern hummingbird.

The first meeting of the Indo-Pak joint anti terror mechanism has ended in Islamabad with both sides issuing a joint statement.

The Government has outlined its 'get tough' plans on tackling illegal immigrants - by sending them text messages.

The national minimum wage is to rise by 17p - about 3% - from £5.35 to £5.52 an hour from October 2007.

India will give Pakistan some details about the Samjhauta and Mumbai train blasts during the first meeting of the joint anti-terror mechanism on Tuesday but there would be no joint probe into the Samjhauta blasts case.

Moni Kumar Subba, a Congress MP, is being accused of being a Nepali citizen. But the suspicion over his nationality has not stopped him from becoming a Congress Member of Parliament from Tezpur, Assam

That morning latte or expresso may not be the pick-me-up people think it is, a study has revealed.