Pfizer has reported first-quarter profit fell 19% after revenue from cholesterol pill Lipitor declined because of generic competition.

Mitt Romney has moved a step closer to clinching the Republican presidential candidacy after his Super Tuesday victory in the key Ohio primary.

ENJOYING good “social connections” with friends, family, colleagues and neighbours can improve an individual’s chances of survival by 50%, a study has found.

THE French parliament’s lower house adopted a ground-breaking bill yesterday that would make it illegal for anyone — including fashion magazines, advertisers and websites — to publicly incite extreme thinness.

A pre-wedding shopping trip in Utah for a 21-year-old bride ended with felony charges against her parents, who she says kidnapped her and drove her 240 miles to Colorado, trying to talk her out of the nuptials along the way and holding her until she missed the ceremony.

USA captain Dave Hodges, now fully recovered from injury, will lead the Eagles in the World Cup next month Down Under.

Tom Green believes it’s his outspoken nature more than his polygamist lifestyle that has led to his prosecution in Utah’s first high-profile bigamy case in 50 years.

It used to take scholars weeks or even months to decipher ancient scrolls scorched in the eruption that buried Pompeii - if the texts weren’t blackened beyond recognition.