Family doctors need a "closer personal relationship" with their patients as part of efforts to ease the crisis in hospital accident and emergency units, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.

Mr Hunt insisted he was not blaming GPs for the problem b...

North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast, a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area, officials said.

North Korea routinely test-launches short-range missiles. But the latest launches came during a peri...

Stuart Broad sparked an alarming New Zealand collapse on the fourth morning at Lord's as England suddenly surged towards victory in the first Investec Test.

Broad followed up his valuable late-order batting to help England to 213 all out despite Tim...