MPs have voted by a majority of 384 to allow Prime Minister Theresa May to get Brexit negotiations under way.

US actress Carrie Fisher, best known for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars series, has died aged 60, days after suffering a cardiac arrest.

HMP Birmingham prison rioters will 'face the full force of the law,' Justice Secretary Liz Truss has said.

Two police officers are under criminal investigation after the death of former Aston Villa star Dalian Atkinson who died after he was shot with a Taser.

Justin Gatlin won his second world 100m title 12 years after his first to ruin eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt's final individual race.

Mo Farah lit up the London Stadium once again as he survived a brutal collective effort from his rivals to storm to his third consecutive world 10,000 metres gold.

After months of fevered speculation, Jodie Whittaker has been named as the new Doctor Who, the first female Time Lord in the show's history.

A woman born with a rare condition which stopped her jawbones growing properly has had her life transformed by pioneering surgery.

The rapper Prodigy, one half of the American hip-hop duo Mobb Deep, died on Tuesday at the age of 42.

Just days after announcing that he was retiring from touring after being hospitalized for exhaustion, legendary jazz singer Al Jarreau passed away Sunday morning in Los Angeles.

The death toll in Haiti as a result of Hurricane Matthew - the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade - has soared to more than 300, officials say.

A two-year-old Nigerian boy who was found emaciated and riddled with worms after his family left him for dead has made an incredible recovery.

A report by a committee of independent nutrition experts has recommended that everyone in the UK should take vitamin D supplements, instead of just some groups of the population. Why?

One person has been left 'brain-dead' and five more have been hospitalised after a clinical trial on an experimental drug went wrong in France.

A 10-year-old girl with vitiligo has launched a career as a model and wants to redefine beauty.

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People who like money too much ought to be kicked out of politics, Uruguayan President José Mujica told CNN en Español in an interview posted online Wednesday.

Sometimes the biggest obstacles are the ones we create and tell ourselves about the world around us.