'I tasted the freshest, most wonderful clams ever in Emilia-Romagna'

New York City's mayor is proposing an unprecedented ban on the sale of large fizzy drinks and other sugary drinks in the hopes of combating obesity — an expansion of efforts to encourage healthy behavior that have led to shouts that America's largest city is becoming a "nanny state."

It's not just the media getting into a frenzy over this weekend's jubilee. Our representatives in Parliament seem pretty excited too. Six Labour MPs have tabled an Early Day Motion, proposing that London Underground's Jubilee line be renamed the "Elizabeth Jubilee Line" to commemorate HRH's "exceptional 60 years".

An NHS trust has set up an advertising agency to sell billboard space around its hospitals and on its website.

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Defence giant BAE Systems is planning to axe more than 600 jobs and close a historic factory which made tanks for the First World War.

A business firm is to create 400 new jobs across the UK, targeting graduates and former military personnel.

Set in the mid-21st century, this novel by German Juli Zeh presents a chilling vision of a dystopian future that plays on our current obsession with health and mass surveillance. Mia Holl, a scientist, lives in a monitored house where the air quality is repeatedly checked, household waste and sewage tested, and public areas regularly disinfected. In return, she and other residents are entitled to cut-price power and water. It is all part of the Method, a system designed to ensure "a happy and healthy life, a life free from suffering and pain".

Channel 4 unveils team for Paralympics who all have experience of living with disability

The jailed Bahraini hunger striker Abdulhadi al-Khawaja – who emerged as the face of the protests against the Grand Prix in the Gulf nation earlier this year – was set to end his strike last night, 110 days after he began refusing food.

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It is the latest culinary invention to be hailed as the best thing since sliced bread: the non-stick ketchup bottle.

The battle over GM food has begun again and it seems there is little in common between those in favour of research and those opposed, other than a belief that they are right and the other side is wrong.

A man who survived a blast at a factory where illegal vodka was being made has said he is still having treatment for his injuries almost a year later following an inquest into his colleagues' deaths today.