America’s Food and Drug Administration has approved a new weight-loss drug from Vivus that many doctors consider the most effective therapy in a new generation of anti-obesity pills designed to help patients safely shed pounds.

CHASTENED by heavy criticism, a grim-faced BP chief executive Tony Hayward insisted yesterday he was “devastated with this accident” in the Gulf of Mexico and denied shunning tough questions from Congress on the nation’s worst oil spill.

THE controversial healthcare bill at the heart of US president Barack Obama’s domestic agenda looked set to go through late last night.

PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama’s advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison but could require creation of a controversial new system of justice.