The former world champion boxer Herbie Hide is facing arrest after he failed to attend court on drug charges, saying he was suffering from malaria in a Nigerian clinic.

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

More than 9,000 people have contracted the mosquito-borne disease since January

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

The midfielder was subjected to abuse earlier this season

Ray Cooney's film about a bigamist taxi driver gets a vicious mauling from the critics

Imagine standing on the surface of the Moon, staring back at Earth and having in your grasp a device that allows you to see a tennis ball.

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.

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

The creators of Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run are at the centre of an angry storm surrounding their latest film amid accusations of bad taste and disability discrimination.

Western aid agencies in Pakistan warned yesterday that they might have to halt flood relief efforts in the cash-strapped country because of funding shortfalls.

Reduced immunity and mosquitoes' growing resistance to insecticide blamed

Malaria is notoriously unpredictable. The increased number of cases in the Senegal study was observed over a single season (three to four months). I'm a little surprised they are being reported at this stage.

With some genetic sleuthing, scientists have identified a likely culprit in the spread of leprosy in the southern United States: the armadillo.