DOCTORS have made an accidental breakthrough that may unlock how memory works, during experimental brain surgery to control the appetite of an obese man.

THE Vatican held the biggest Mass beatification in history yesterday, putting nearly 500 Catholics killed during the Spanish civil war on the path to possible sainthood.

“IF YOU hesitate, you come home in a box and I didn’t want to come home in a box,” said Mario Lozano, the American soldier being tried for murder after fatally shooting an Italian military intelligence agent at a checkpoint in Baghdad in 2005.

A US soldier went on trial in absentia today in the shooting death of an Italian intelligence agent at a checkpoint in Iraq two years ago, a case that strained relations between Rome and Washington.

An Italian judge today ordered a US soldier to stand trial for the fatal shooting of an Italian intelligence agent at a checkpoint in Baghdad, the prosecutor said.

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