The St Louis Cardinals secured an 11th World Series success as they beat the Texas Rangers 6-2 in the seventh and final game between the two.

A newer drug clearly outperforms tamoxifen at preventing breast cancer from returning and should become the first-choice treatment for most women who have had the disease, doctors are reporting.

A convicted killer was executed, even though the handling of his case by Houston’s troubled police laboratory had been called into question by two state senators and the police chief himself.