The health service is set for a boost with an extra £260m as the Welsh government unveils its spending plans. Finance Minister Jane Hutt said the 2016/17 draft budget would back Labour’s “principles and priorities”. She claimed the Welsh government faced a 3.6% cut in UK government fundingover five years, once the effects of inflation were taken into account. Ms Hutt ...

GPs should actively encourage patients to go online for booking appointments and ordering repeat prescriptions, according to a review of digital services in the NHS in England. Baroness Martha Lane Fox, former internet entrepreneur and government adviser, wants the NHS to push forward with an IT revolution. Her recommendations include ensuring every NHS building provides free wi-fi. She says every ...

Indian reproduction specialist Dr Gautam Khastagir here on Friday underscored the need for eradicating the widespread misconception that women are responsible for infertility. Rather, it is men who are responsible for at least 60 percent of infertility cases, he said while addressing a press conference on ‘Infertility Awareness’ organised by SSBCL Group, Bangladesh at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel. Dr Gautam, ...

In the future, you may never have to face the dreaded dentist drill, as a new study has found a drill-free way of treating tooth decay. The University of Sydney study has revealed that tooth decay (dental caries) can be stopped, reversed and prevented without the need for the traditional ‘fill and drill’ approach that has dominated dental care for ...

Rangpur Riders outplayed Sylhet Super Stars and secured 8 wickets win throwing them out of the third edition of BPL match at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in the capital on Monday. Super Stars had to win all their matches in hand to gain any sort of chances in the knock out phase in the BPL -3 but they failed ...

The Afghan Taliban released an audio message Saturday it said was from leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, vehemently rejecting reports of his death in a firefight with his own commanders as “enemy propaganda”. The 16-minute file said those “rumours” had been deliberately planted to weaken the Taliban, which has seen a new resurgence under the firebrand supremo despite its internal divisions. ...

At least 18 labourers, including 11 women, were killed and 16 others injured when an overloaded pickup van rammed into a stationary truck in Rajasthan’s Pratapgarh in India on Saturday night . The accident took place in Dholapani area of the district when the labourers were returning to their village after work, police said. “The pickup van rammed into a ...

Myanmar’s former military ruler sees erstwhile foe Aung San Suu Kyi as the country’s “future leader” and has pledged support for her in a secret meeting, the general’s grandson said. Details of Friday’s meeting between the two was revealed by General Than Shwe’s grandson, who acted as intermediary. He said in a Facebook post the meeting had lasted two-and-a-half hours. ...

France votes in first election since Paris attacks France is set to vote in the first round of regional elections, the first electoral challenge since the Paris attacks, which killed 130 people. The elections are viewed as a test of public support for the government’s response to the attacks on 13 November. The far-right National Front (FN) is hoping to ...

Michel Platini’s lawyers say a memo published in a French newspaper on Sunday could help clear the suspended Uefa president of wrongdoing. Platini and Fifa president Sepp Blatter have been suspended over allegations a “disloyal payment” was made to Platini in 2011 for work done years earlier. Le Journal du Dimanche says the memo, dating back to 1998, includes a ...