Researchers said age 11 ‘may be a sensitive period in which psychological well-being is associated with future body weight’.

Periods of heavy rain may hit parts of south-east Scotland and north-east England later on Tuesday through to Wednesday and weather warnings are possible until mid-week as rain falls on already wet ...

The mother of the sole British hostage still in Gaza a year after she was taken by Hamas has pleaded for her safe return, saying: “I need her back with me now, alive, before it is too late for her.” ...

An investigation has been launched after a 17-year-old boy died following a police chase. The teenage passenger was one of three males taken to hospital after the crash outside Central Middlesex ...

A 12-year-old girl has suffered life-changing injuries when she was attacked by a dog. The girl is in hospital after the “distressing incident” and a man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of ...

The injunction issued by US district judge James Donato will require Google to make several changes that the California company had been resisting, including a provision that will require its Play ...

Conservative Party leadership hopeful Tom Tugendhat repeatedly shouted “not true” as Mr Lammy set out the reasons behind the Government’s decision to relinquish sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, ...

Politicians should “cut all the flim-flam” and drop rhetoric which is “damaging public confidence” in the NHS, Victoria Atkins has warned. In a Commons debate about Lord Darzi’s NHS investigation, the ...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has suggested that migrants who are in the US and have committed murder did so because “it’s in their genes”. There are, he added, “a lot of bad genes in ...

Mary Lou McDonald has announced a “complete overhaul” of Sinn Fein’s governance procedures as she apologised for the party’s handling of a sex crime investigation into one of its former press officers ...

Houston died on Monday morning in her New Jersey home while under hospice care for Alzheimer’s disease, her family said.