Having regular sugary drinks may increase the chance of developing type 2 diabetes, even for slim people, researchers say.

Much-loved birds including curlews and cuckoos are under a growing threat from climate change in England, according to a new report.

Growing emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are threatening the effectiveness of radiocarbon dating, according to new research.

Polar bears across the Arctic region face a shortage of food in the summer due to increased melting of ice

An Edinburgh company has won the UK's top engineering prize for its digital hydraulic power system.

Designers at Cardiff University say they have constructed the sort of house George Osborne once described as impossible.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, centre, arrives for the opening of The Third International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Addis Ababa

Trans-fats are unsafe to eat and must be banned from the food supply within three years, US regulators have said.

An Italian magazine has published a leaked draft of the Pope's encyclical on climate change, which is due for release on Thursday.

Another patient has died in South Korea amid an outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers), bringing total fatalities to 16.