Reading Time: < 1 minute School leavers face competition for university places this summer due to more 18-year-olds in the population, Ucas and Ofqual bosses have said. Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Doctors and pharmacists have been warned to stop prescribing diabetes drugs to people who simply want to lose weight. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute Concerns codeine-based cough syrup could be addictive and have serious health consequences have led the UK medicines safety regulator to consider  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute Residents of Singapore possess the world’s most powerful passport, a new report has revealed, while Britain has jumped from sixth to fourth place. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Nigerian man who forced himself to cry for an entire week has told how he went temporarily blind.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute Cerberus’s unrelenting heat is still gripping Europe, with temperatures predicted to hit 48C today in Italy. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute Police investigating a Kenyan cult suspected of practising starvation to “meet Jesus” have exhumed over 400 bodies, a senior official has said….

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Government will begin a consultation on the ban of plastic wet wipes “as soon as possible”, water minister Rebecca Pow has said.  Read More