Nigeria shuts down a pharmaceuticals plant after the deaths of 25 infants are linked to tainted teething syrup.

Work doesn't have to be a chore. Launching a series looking at dream children's jobs, Lucy Rodgers speaks to a professional chocolate taster.

A care worker admits placing oversized false teeth in a man's mouth and likening him to the racehorse Red Rum.

The oldest genetically identifiable nuclear family met a violent death, according to analysis of remains from 4,600-year-old burials in Germany.

Barrow joint-manager Dave Bayliss describes his team's 3-1 Setanta Shield win over Gateshead as "like pulling teeth" to watch.

The various artists of the Glasgow Sculpture Studios officially take up residence in a brand new home.

An international rugby player says people in Castleford have rotten teeth and "need a bath".

England rugby league coach Tony Smith defends Yorkshire towns Castleford and Pontefract after former Bradford Bulls player Ian Henderson said residents have "rotten teeth" and "need a bath".

A man suffers head injuries, a broken nose, damaged teeth and fractures to his cheek bone and eye socket in a street attack.

Two people are jailed for hacking out a man's teeth during a "barbaric" attack on Teesside.

A man who indecently assaulted a teenage girl in an Aberdeen park is being hunted by police.

The collective farm at Gorodets, where Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko cut his political teeth, is like a microcosm of the country as a whole, says the BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse.

When it comes to teeth, there's definitely a transatlantic dental divide. Just ask Ricky Gervais, his gnashers horrified an American journalist who'd assumed he was wearing unflattering false set for a role. So crooked and chipped or Hollywood smile, we asked you to send in pictures of your teeth.

Ricky Gervais is the first to admit that his pearly-whites are neither white nor straight - and Americans mistakenly think he wears bad false teeth for comedic purposes. Why the transatlantic dental divide?

A Nottingham jeweller takes out an advert asking people to sell their old gold - including false teeth.

A woman who pulled out two of her teeth because she cannot afford a dentist confronts the chief dental officer.

A man caught with heroin worth £100,000 after being betrayed by his bad teeth is jailed for 40 months.

The fossilised skull of an "extremely rare" steppe mammoth has been discovered in southern France.

The crocodile at Peter Pan creator JM Barrie's birthplace is missing several teeth - and a dentist is needed.

Japanese scientists say they have created human stem cells from tissue taken from discarded wisdom teeth.