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Canada is the latest country to see a decline in rates of overweight and obesity. Does that mean anti-obesity strategies are starting to work?

"The fact that bystanders intervened to stop the abuse clearly demonstrates that the public will not tolerate a racist environment"

Serious violence fails to fall following a seven-year run of declining figures, a Cardiff University study shows.

The YouGov research showed that 51% of people in Wales never take any cardiovascular exercise, prompting warnings from health experts

A major study has found in the first six months after moving house people are more likely to be green commuters

Northern Ireland's unemployment level is again on the rise and higher than almost any other region of the United Kingdom, up by 4,000 in a three-month period.

More than 72 per cent of adults aged under 24 said they were 'comfortable or alright' with money each month if they lived with mum and dad - compared to just 44 per cent of those who rent their own home.

YOUNG people - and particularly women - are more likely to drink heavily if they went to university or became a smoker in their teenage years, new research has shown.

Maybe he doesn't hit you, but he makes passive aggressive remarks and labels you as the “crazy one” for reacting to the bait.

Maybe he doesn't hit you, but he threatens suicide if you want to leave him.

Maybe he doesn't hit you, but he tells you that you are not allowed to go out wearing that skirt.

Belgium's Justice Minister has been criticised after claiming the number of practicing Muslims would “very soon” overtake the number of practising Christians in Europe.

Speaking in a question and answer session at a parliamentary committee, Koen Geens said: “In Europe, very shortly we’re going to have more practising Muslims than practising Christians.”

His comments have been dismissed as “misleading and irresponsible” by one of the UK’s leading anti-Islamophobia charities.

After-school clubs can improve the academic performance and social skills of disadvantaged primary pupils, a Nuffield Foundation study finds.

Disabled people are almost three and a half times more at risk of violent crime, research shows.

John Morgan finds pro-EU stance of (most) graduates will be a key factor on 23 June, but also reveals much about current divisions in UK society