Ecstasy can help the tortured victims of post traumatic stress overcome their demons, research has shown.

Pop beauty Janet Jackson has become the latest member of her family to face a court battle, after a man accused her of stealing a song from him.

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.