More than 1,600 cases reported in October and three infants die with southeast worst-hit area.
GlaxoSmithKline ordered to pay €400,000 in damages to Jambert for side effects of Requip drug.
Fresh diagnoses of killer virus reaches record high with 96,000 now living with HIV.
Two Sumatran tiger cubs filmed in previously unexplored Sembilang National Park.
Scientists suspend the launch of Naro-1 just 17 minutes before the scheduled launch time.
Scientists discover underwater 360 degree somersaults and rolling turns improve krill foraging for blue whales.
Nasa scientists believe 'veritable arcade' of thermal Pac-Man shapes may exist on Saturn’s moons.
Tsunami Early Warning Mitigation System will be tested by four simulated earthquakes and tsunamis.
Documentary shows how rare brain disease leads victims to decline to child-like state.
Girl's parents told to 'say goodbye' after extreme reaction to Microgynon 30.
Scientists find first evidence that ocean acidification is damaging life in Southern Ocean.
Smoking causes brain damage that affects memory, learning and reasoning, study finds.
Skull preserved in volcanic ash in central Turkey.
Researchers also find increase in users experiencing mental health problems, including panic attacks and paranoia.
Low muscle strength during adolescence puts people at greater risk of dying early.
Alarming health study puts Scotland bottom of 20-country mortality league.
Nanotechnology that resets immune system has major implications for treatment of MS, diabetes and asthma.
A second peak of the spectacular Leonid meteor shower is forecast between dusk and dawn on 19 and 20 November.
How do rappers like Eminem and Jay Z manage to freestyle rap without getting tongue-tied?
Meteorites show there was once warm water on Mars that could have made the planet habitable.
New study shows great white sharks evolved from broad-toothed mako sharks two million years earlier than previously thought.
There will be 33,000 survivors of childhood cancer living in the UK by the end of this year.
About 180 million rats are to be killed on Pinzon Island and the islet of Plaza Sur, small islands of the Galapagos Islands archipelago, in an effort to eradicate the invasive species.
The Mazatlan Aquarium in the Mexican state of Sinaloa has released more than 1,200 Olive Ridley sea turtle hatchlings (Lepidochelys olivacea) into the Pacific Ocean.
Wellcome Trust director Sir Mark Walport says DNA mapping is "a technology of the here and now".
Mystery surrounding this zombie fungus - and a question baffling scientists - is how it got into three lots of injectable steroids prepared inside a laboratory
New report says care for schizophrenic patients is unacceptable, adds to distress and worsens illness.
Scientists have discovered an unexpected link between humans and an immortal species of animal.
The BBC documentary will look at the efforts made to give minimally conscious patients a voice.
From poor beginnings, Srinivasa Ramanujan ended up being one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.