Beau Biden, who followed his father, US vice president Joe Biden, into politics has died of brain cancer at the age of 46, less than two years after he was diagnosed.

The Muslim US major who went on the rampage at Fort Hood army base killing 13 people was a known problem who should have been spotted, a new report says.

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.

PATRICK J CARROLL concludes his letter (Irish Examiner, May 8) about my article on the Spanish flu pandemic (May 1) with: “the rest is history”.