Dental surgeries are exaggerating or inventing work they have done for the National Health Service in order to swindle tens of millions of pounds out of taxpayers, according to a check up of dentists’ honesty.

Spoiler alert: The Bridge may be a dinner-party talking point, but I'd rather watch the Steps reunion

A care worker at an old people's home has been sacked for feeding a patient a dog biscuit, it emerged today.

Brutal and brilliant, it's high time a British company got in on the action

Everything tastes better with bacon. Or so goes a flawed bit of mid-Noughties American wisdom.

Frequent dental X-rays may significantly increase the risk of non-malignant brain tumours, say researchers.

Dentists should screen patients for signs that they drink too much alcohol, researchers have said.

The people's favourites show they're still in a different class

We've all been there, crafting every item conceivable in Skyrim, building a bathroom in Minecraft 'just because' or replaying the same section of Metal Gear Solid 4 until we get through without being spotted (you know, like a proper spy). But where do our obsessions really lie? Here's a list of ten games which don’t just demand to be completed, but rather exhausted. Without further ado we give you: Obsession for Gamers.

There are two things wrong with the name of the Silent Hill HD Collection, first, it’s barely a collection at all, consisting as it does of just Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3, and second, those graphics fall short of what you expect of HD, the developers seemingly content to carry forward the game’s existing PS2-era aesthetics.

After 15 years of wearing a mask and living as a recluse, a 37-year-old Virginia man disfigured in a gun accident got a new face, nose, teeth and jaw in what University of Maryland physicians say is the most extensive face transplant ever performed.

Bones found in China have led scientists to suggest a new species of humanoid. By Steve Connor

Fossilised remains of China's 'red deer cave people' may represent a whole new human species. Steve Connor on a discovery that radically complicates the story of our origins

English Touring Opera shows often embody the old adage about necessity and invention. Portability is the key: their sets must fit in the back of a van, and be shoehorned into a wide variety of spaces.