Screening for prostate cancer could reduce deaths from the disease by about a fifth, according to the long-term results of a major European study involving over 162 000 men published in The Lancet.

Guo Meimei, the 23-year-old woman who landed the Red Cross in China in a credibility crisis, has been investigated for being deeply involved with illegal gambling and the sex trade, and for spreading rumors, Xinhua News Agency reported on August 4.

An 800-pound tiger shark was caught this weekend by a man from San Antonio fishing just a few miles off the coast of Port Aransas. He never expected to hook the 12-foot tiger shark, and the fight to reel him in wasn’t easy.

A 12 year-old boy is being charged as an adult with open murder in the deadly stabbing of a 9-year-old boy at a playground.

PRINCE Charles is said to be “furious” that a trusted aide has written a book which gives details about the breakdown of his marriage to Princess Diana. The Queen’s former press secretary Dickie Arbiter is promoting his memoirs, which are believed to contain explosive insights into the inner workings of the royal family. His book, On Duty with the Queen, …

Genene Jones, the killer nurse who may be the most infamous serial killer in Texas history, is up for a parole hearing at the women’s prison in east Texas.

A Brampton, Ont., teenager has become the first pediatric patient in North America to have a benign tumour near his hip removed without radiation or surgery. Doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto used high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) waves, guided by an MRI machine, to burn off the tumour of 16-year-old Jack Campanile two weeks ago.

People with diabetes in low-income neighborhoods are 10 times more likely than those from wealthy areas to have their lower limbs (legs, foot, or toes) amputated because of a diabetes-related complication, a study published Monday reports.

Provincial police say a man is dead after a CN freight train struck a passenger vehicle at a crossing just west of Trenton. Firefighters at the scene had to extricate at least one victim from inside the vehicle, which was crushed into the front of the train’s lead locomotive in the crash at about 10 a.m. Wednesday morning.

Two workers were taken to hospital as a precautionary measure and emergency and fire services closed a section of road in east end St. John’s after an industrial chemical spill.

NASA will alter the orbital pathway of its $297 million Mars Odyssey orbiter on Tuesday in an effort to remove it from the danger zone of a super-speed dust from a massive comet that will fly very close to the Red Planet on Oct. 19. NASA already made one unannounced change to the path of its other Mars spacecraft, the …