Tender and moving, this novel about the loss of memory also reaffirms the value of the storyteller

This rich collage of characters and events adds up to a devastating picture of a country in crisis

Tens of  thousands of people forced to evacuate their homes as further dramatic rises in the levels of the swollen Elbe and Danube rivers continued to cause chaos

Nurse pleads guilty to a crime few can comprehend: starting the fire which killed three people outright and claimed eight more lives in the ensuing weeks

Boruch Spiegel, who died on 9 May at the age of 93, was one of the last remaining survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising by poorly armed Jewish insurgents against the Nazis. With Spiegel’s death, the group of survivors of the revolt that was crushed 70 years ago grows smaller.

Ian Bell is expected to recover from tonsillitis in time to play for England in the second Test against New Zealand starting on Friday.

But they cannot eliminate plant's electrical system or electric cart as potential causes

Another tragedy strikes Texas town as explosion at fertiliser plant kills up to 15 and flattens landscape

Court of Protection rules 64-year-old's decision must be respected, 'terribly sad though that be'

A member of staff at a care home has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a 73-year-old resident.

David Randall on the phone call that meant his childhood was finally over

A senior nurse in a scandal-hit hospital told a seriously ill elderly woman patient she was a “naughty little monkey” and refused to help lift her from a wheelchair on to a bed, a tribunal heard today.

Iris isn't sure she really wants to inherit the old house. But it's been left to her by her grandmother, Bertha, so after the old lady's funeral, when her mother and aunts have gone back to their lives, Iris moves in. Temporarily, at least.

Timothy West has warned that older actors are still being typecast despite a raft of new films featuring them.