Suicide tourism is on the rise, experts said after they found that the number of people travelling to Switzerland to take their own lives had doubled in four years.
One in five people who travelled to Zurich for assisted suicide between 2008 and 2012 were from the UK, researchers found.
Introducing the Assisted Dying Bill in the UK would not lead to more death but to less suffering, Lord Falconer said during a debate in the House of Lords, as figures released showed that the number of of people travelling to Switzerland to take their own lives had doubled in four years.
The World Health Organisation has rescinded its decision to appoint Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe as a "goodwill ambassador".
The only way of dealing with British Islamic State fighters in Syria will be to kill them in almost every case, a minister has said.
A settled end to the weekend for many but a damp start to the working week