Venezuelan cabinet ministers gather at the presidential palace to pray for the health of President Hugo Chavez, who is being treated for cancer.

Police searching for a British holidaymaker missing in Tenerife find a body.

The UN Security Council imposes sanctions against leaders of the M23 rebel movement in DR Congo.

The Archbishop of Canterbury pays tribute to unsung volunteers who help transform lives and build communities, in his final New Year message.

Obesity services across the UK are "extremely patchy", meaning valuable opportunities to help obese patients are often lost, doctors say.

Despite being the most common male cancer, prostate cancer is 20th in the league table of cancer research funding, say experts.

Two men have been arrested by detectives investigating the attempted murder of a policeman after a "viable" bomb was placed under his car in Belfast.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is making "excellent progress" after a blood clot was found between her brain and skull, doctors say.