A Brazilian rest home for the elderly believes it may be home to the world’s oldest person.

A body pulled from the Euphrates River south of Baghdad yesterday has been identified as one of three American soldiers abducted two weeks ago in an ambush claimed by al-Qaida.

Doctors have halted another major HRT study after early findings showed women were being made to face an “unacceptably high risk” of breast cancer, it was revealed today.