Head of NSA defends monitoring as legal, closely supervised and crucial to defending Americans, adding it was not “some rogue operation”

Raising consumption by more than half a serving a day was associated with a 48% increase in risk over the next four years

Ken Clarke has warned Eurosceptics that they risk wrecking the “biggest bilateral trade deal in history” by demanding the UK leave the EU.

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30-year-old joins small group of prisoners whose crimes are deemed so appalling they will spend the rest of their lives behind bars

A fortnight of clear skies and moderately warm spells may, depressingly, be all the summer we're to receive this year

The two men were trapped outside the building's 46th floor

A British oil worker kidnapped in Indonesia has been reunited with his family after a two-day ordeal.

48-year-old singer died from a single knife wound

Blinded by dust as the storm tore across Interstate 80, vehicles began ploughing into each other, dramatically stretching limited emergency resources in sparsely populated Humboldt County, Nevada