Senator Edward Kennedy, who has brain cancer, was taken by ambulance to a hospital near his Massachusetts vacation home after complaining of feeling ill but returned home a few hours later.

US Senator Edward Kennedy, who is being treated for brain cancer, has been taken to a hospital near his Cape Cod vacation home after complaining of feeling ill.

The father and son operators of a Cape Cod charter boat have admitted to the manslaughter of an Irish student who fell through a broken railing on their craft and drowned.