Minor surgery could be life-threatening in the future, warn experts in Britain and New Zealand.

Sheriden Rhodes has a pilgrimage to Liverpool to find the Beatles – and her dad.

Sharon Stephenson discovers returning from an expat life can be a bittersweet homecoming.

Welcome to Shoreditch, an edgy district in the east of the capital where flocks of art lovers are ditching the National Gallery for an urban adventure.

A New Zealander who was driving a motorboat which hit and killed an 11-year-old girl at a London water park will not face charges, British police have decided.

Hostility to the European Union is mainly an English thing, writes Gwynne Dyer, but that matters a lot in the United Kingdom, where 55 million of the kingdom's 65 million people live in England.

Check in at London's Dorset Square Hotel, a couple of minutes' walk from Marylebone station and five minutes from Baker Street Tube.

Julia Shallcrass visits friends at Cambridge University for a tour of their home town.

Prosecutors are weighing whether to press charges over a royal hoax call that preceded a nurse's apparent suicide, police said.

The Spencer Family have lived in the same house for 500 years; I've been living in mine for 15, yet they don't seem to have accumulated nearly so much clutter, writes Jill Worrall.

British reviewers were scathing about the big-budget stage show built around the songs of 1990s "Girl Power" pop group the Spice Girls.

Tamati Coffey is leaving TV1's Breakfast. The star made the announcement on Twitter this morning.

For years, the four-storey brick terrace house where Charles Dickens lived with his young family was a dusty and slightly neglected museum. Now it's gone from Bleak House to Great Expectations.

If you're keen for a shopping fix overseas this holiday season here are the best streets around the world to fill up the suitcase with goodies.