The beauty of the Pilton pop festival is that there’s always something to pull you from the main drag

A high time with the eco-terrorists

Mr Hornsby drove a series of ambulances from Normandy to the Netherlands

The midfielder was subjected to abuse earlier this season

Gates blames capitalism for channelling more money into curing minor ailments

TV pick of the week: Mary and Martha

Most modern popes die from natural causes, but Mike Higgins finds this was not always the case

Ahead of tomorrow’s High Level Panel meeting in London, a reflection on the critical role of health in and beyond the Millennium Development Goals.

Six Humboldt penguins died in an outbreak of malaria at London Zoo, it was revealed yesterday. The birds contracted the avian strain of the disease from mosquitoes in August.

Six penguins have died after an outbreak of malaria at London Zoo this summer.

When British doctor Sir Ronald Ross discovered the crucial link between mosquitos and malaria at the end of the 19 century, he understandably thought it marked the beginning of the end of the deadly disease – rampant then not only in colonial India and Africa, but also in southern European countries such as Greece and Italy.

Resistance to artemesinin was first detected in Cambodia in 2009, but has now spread 800km west

India and the European Union have agreed to speed up negotiations for a long-anticipated free trade pact, aiming to seal an deal later this year that would nearly double their trade with each other.

Malaria is killing almost twice as many people around the world than was previously thought, a study has shown.