A key member of a committee set up to drive change in the national cervical cancer screening programme is considering quitting because she no longer has faith in it.

US President George Bush said tonight that mass shootings are a reminder that people must be willing to raise a red flag about others’ disturbing behaviour.

While the parents of the Virginia Tech gunman have kept silent and out of public view, his uncle met an official from a Korean-American association and said he "assumes" the parents are doing fine.

The FBI believes a retired US Air Force sergeant they have arrested on spying charges tried to share sensitive defence secrets with Libya.