Prosecutors believe the head-on train crash in southern Germany last week which killed 11 people was caused by "human error" by the train dispatcher.

Jurors in Charleston, South Carolina, convicted a 15-year-old boy who claimed an antidepressant drug drove him to murder his grandparents, rejecting the first defence in the United States in which a juvenile claimed the effects of the drug caused him to kill.

A 15-YEAR-OLD boy, who claimed the antidepressant Zoloft drove him to kill his grandparents, was jailed for murder yesterday.

A teenager who is claimed to be the first person known to have survived rabies without a vaccination went home today after nearly 11 weeks in the hospital, officials in the United States said.