A spokesman for former US presidential nominee and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole said he is recuperating at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre after a bout of pneumonia.

AFTER mistaken reports in the aftermath of the shooting at Fort Hood in Texas that the gunmen responsible for the killings was shot dead, it has emerged that suspect Nadil Malik Hasan is alive and being treated at the base hospital.

US Army Secretary Francis Harvey resigned after a row broke out over a scandal involving the treatment of wounded soldiers.

An experimental vaccine derived from tiny bits of tumour protein and involving a simple pinprick of the patient may prevent cancer from recurring, researchers believe.