A judge has asked psychiatrists to assess whether the honeymoon murder suspect Shrien Dewani would be better treated for mental health problems in South Africa.

Survey also found that one in five GPs had at least one disabled patient who had thought about suicide because of the test

The trial of a South African man accused of shooting dead Swedish honeymooner Anni Dewani will go ahead on Wednesday after judges found him fit to stand trial.

One in eight soldiers has attacked someone after coming home from fighting, a new study shows.

Marco Cardinale promotes unity and team ethic to inspire athletes

Danny Boyle, the artistic director of the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics, has sent a hand-written letter to animal rights campaigners pledging that no harm will come to the animals used in the making of his show.

The future. A beep. A disembodied voice: "You have 12 new messages, eight of which may cause you to despair at the uselessness of humanity."

New poll of carers reveals 60 per cent are suffering health problems and many are aged 60 or over

So I had left Istanbul with its colourful chaos and ended up in a place in America where the wind blew hot as a hair dryer, huge thorny cacti greeted newcomers and Spanish was the official language. What was I doing in Tucson, Arizona? Teaching, writing a new novel... The part of me that couldn't settle down, always a nomad, an outsider, East and West, and yet precisely because of that at home everywhere, that stubborn part was holding the reins. It was as if I had taken a plastic globe, given it a real good spin, and randomly put my finger on a spot.

PC David Rathband always insisted he never hated Raoul Moat for blinding him.

Young people are increasingly seeking help from counsellors for mental health problems alongside anger management, according to new research.

Breast-fed babies grow into better behaved and more emotionally stable children than those that are bottle fed, a study has shown.

The widow of a bomb disposal hero who did not have the equipment to detect a new Taliban device which killed him said her husband's team was "undermanned and overworked".

Women laugh about "man flu" but the condition is no myth, scientists have learned.