SCIENTISTS in Australia are reporting encouraging early results from a simple eye test they hope will give a noninvasive way to detect signs of Alzheimer’s disease.

A US teenager committed suicide a day after two classmates secretly recorded him having sex with a man and broadcast it over the internet, it has emerged.

The French national railway’s bid to win America’s first high-speed rail contract will face the fury of Holocaust survivors today over the company’s role in transporting Jews to Nazi death camps.

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New York celebrity disc jockey DJ AM has been found dead.

The shock of Adam 'DJ AM' Goldstein's near-death plane crash has reportedly rekindled his romance with singer ex-girlfriend Mandy Moore.

Former Blink-182 rocker Travis Barker has been released from hospital in Georgia - more than a week after he was involved in a plane crash that killed four others.

Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM are expected to fully recover from burns they suffered in a fiery South Carolina jet crash that killed the other four people aboard, one of their doctors said today.

A witness to the plane crash that killed four and critically injured former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM told today how he came upon the two survivors as they stripped off their burning clothes.

Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ AM were critically injured in a plane crash in the US that killed four people, authorities said today.

Scientists have sped up their Mars lander mission after a short circuit cast doubt over the future of the probe.

Scientists have begun releasing the robotic arm on Nasa’s new Mars spacecraft, one day late because of a radio problem.

Pop star Mandy Moore has reportedly ended her relationship with Adam 'DJ AM' Goldstein, after only a few months of dating.

ISRAEL’S third-largest city, Haifa, was plunged into panic, then silence yesterday, following the deadliest missile attack by Hezbollah on Israel since fighting began last week.

Nicole Richie and Adam 'DJ AM' Goldstein have officially split, for the second time in six months.

SUPER-SKINNY reality TV star Nicole Richie has admitted she is “too thin” and is getting help from doctors to gain weight.

Nicole Richie, whose drastic weight loss spawned speculation that she has an eating disorder, acknowledges she is “too thin” and is getting treatment to add pounds.

The Simple Life star Nicole Richie and former fiancé Adam 'DJ AM' Goldstein are reportedly rekindling their romance after they were spotted holding hands during a romantic dinner in Los Angeles.

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) essentially sat on its hands yesterday in the face of soaring oil prices by deciding to keep its output steady.

Malcolm Glazer aims to grow Manchester United’s success so that the club will make him money, his sister said tonight.

Lionel Richie's daughter Nicole has announced that she and her boyfriend are engaged.

Israel is considering building thousands more homes in West Bank settlements, in line with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan to keep large chunks of the territory while giving up the Gaza Strip, security officials said today.

INTEREST rates in Europe and the United States are set to rise before the end of the summer, an economist with the US Conference Board predicted yesterday.

A podiatrist pleaded guilty on Thursday to plotting a bomb attack on an Islamic centre in Florida to avenge the 2001 terrorist atrocities.

Commemorating John Lennon’s birthday and his commitment to peace, the murdered ex-Beatle’s widow Yoko Ono invoked his famous song, Give Peace A Chance, to initiate a new peace prize.

New figures suggest the US economy faces a slow recovery.

Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against actor Robert Blake if he is convicted of murdering his wife, the Los Angeles district attorney’s office said yesterday.

The Wall Street Journal says it's confident Daniel Pearl is still alive.

An American reporter has apparently been taken hostage in Pakistan by a group seeking freedom for Pakistani fighters imprisoned at Cuba’s Camp X-Ray and for the release of a Taliban leader.

An alleged anthrax hoaxer will return to court today accused of sending a suspect package to a busy postal sorting office.

Eyewitnesses today spoke of their horror as they saw terrorist attacks reduce parts of New York to crumbling, smoking ruins.