India Brainard got a rather special visit from her boyfriend after spending 57 days in hospital.

The US and South Korea have today failed to conclude a long-sought free-trade deal, a setback for President Barack Obama as he confronts tensions over economic measures abroad and at home.

US Energy Department officials want the Los Alamos National Laboratory, known as the birthplace of the atomic bomb, to create a special facility where scientists can work with infectious agents such as plague, anthrax and tuberculosis.