Babies born by Caesarean section are twice as likely to be obese in childhood, researchers claim.

A 50-year-old man has been charged with criminal damage after an incident at a research centre testing genetically modified wheat.

The wettest April on record "battered" retailers and drove the sharpest drop in footfall since the end of 2009.

The news that Junior Seau, for 20 seasons a star linebacker in the National Football League, had killed himself at the age of 42 with a gunshot to the chest, shocked America. Few played the game with such high-energy enthusiasm, and few played it with such physicality for so long.

Bank set to decide on printing money

As boss of a North London photographic company in the mid-1970s George Ward played a central role in a key episode in Margaret Thatcher's developing belief that the power of Britain's trade unions had to be curbed. The strike at his firm dragged on for two long and bitter years, encompassing violence on the picket lines, huge political controversy and high-level legal proceedings before ending in defeat for the unions.

Those who get to Newmarket on Sunday with time to spare before the 1,000 Guineas card will have the considerable bonus of seeing the best horse on the planet go through his paces before racing.

New hopes of a cure for baldness have been sparked after Japanese researchers claimed to have successfully grown hair on hairless mice.

The online giant has already conquered most of the retail world – now it's moving into industrial supplies. Mark Piesing asks what that means for the rest of the industry.

Scientists shocked to find greenhouse gas 70 times more potent than CO2 bubbling from deep ocean

Mr Hollande’s economic programme is vaguely promising compared with the “Merkozy” orthodoxy

Once again the National Front has helped to set the tone and the terms for a presidential election

A dramatic breakthrough in breast cancer research will lead to a revolution in the way the disease will be diagnosed and treated in years to come, leading cancer specialists said yesterday.