1 drop of blood & 60 minutes: Breakthrough device heralds future of cancer detection

Published time: October 18, 2014 13:33

Early cancer detection can save millions of lives but current diagnostic methods remain costly and invasive. However, a new startup is developing a device which could detect dozens of cancers with a single blood test.…

Sweden deploys troops over underwater threat

Published: 17 Oct 2014 17:44 GMT+02:00

Updated: 18 Oct 2014 09:30 GMT+02:00

UPDATED: Sweden's military has deployed planes and ships in the Stockholm Archipelago against what it says is a foreign threat in the waters, with the size of the operation unchanged overnight.…

UK treats 1,700 female genital mutilation victims since April

Teachers claim male asylum seekers in their 20s are ending up in their schools after lying about their age to stay in the UK 

• Concerns that asylum seekers are being placed in schools too quickly
• Canterbury headteacher says boy who said he was 15 was in his twenties …

Immigration surge means 'at least 42,000 homes need to be built in London each year to cope with demand'

• A predicted increase of a million foreigners must be matched by new builds
• Report accuses Boris Johnson of misrepresenting reason for capital's boom
• Group…

Nurse Kills 38 Patients Because They Annoyed Her — Takes Selfies With Their Corpses

Daniela Poggiali, a 42-year-old nurse working at a hospital in northeastern Italy, has been arrested for an ongoing investigation into the deaths of 38 patients who died during her shift.

According to the New York Post,…

Scenes from an Atrocity

BY JON LEE ANDERSON

MAY 15, 2013

I first heard about the Syrian rebel who was supposed to have eaten a heart on Monday, when a friend who lives in Beirut tweeted something cryptic about abuse videos. Against my better instincts, I…

SWAT kills Georgia man using info from drug addict who stole his car

Ebola infection rocks North Texas Liberians

Rick Jervis, USA TODAY9:22 p.m. EDT October 1, 2014

EULESS, Texas — For months, Liberians in this suburb between Dallas and Fort Worth have faced devastating news from their home country of…

Shocking NASA pics show Aral Sea basin now completely dry

'I could have ended up as his dinner. He's a monster': Friend of cannibal jailed for nine years for plot to kill and eat teenage girl tells of moment he tried to suffocate her 

• Urlene King tells of the moment Dale Bolinger tried to drug her at his home
• She had known him 17 years before the sudden attack at his home in…

Over 700 infants potentially exposed to TB at Texas hospital

How 'home hackers' spy on you and your children... with YOUR webcam: The shocking evidence that shows how private lives are snooped on and streamed live on web  

• Investigation reveals 'home hackers' are spying on people through webcams 
• Vulnerable devices include baby monitors and domestic security…

Revealed, one man's terrifying 'jihad' on U.S. soil: Extremist 'executed four in revenge for American attacks in the Middle East and carried out bank fraud for the Cause'

• Ali Muhammad Brown, 29, confessed he killed because 'all these lives are taken every single day by America, by this government. So a life for a life'
• Brown blasted Brendan Tevlin, 19, a University of Richmond…

​Internet Slowdown Day: Leading web companies fight for ‘net neutrality’

CIA torture far exceeded waterboarding, brought suspects 'to the point of death'

Danish Police Arrest Sea Shepherd Team Trying to Stop Faroe Islands Whale Slaughter

By David Kirby | Takepart.com 19 hours ago............ September 1st…

Ebola Could Strike 20,000, World Health Agency Says

By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE and ALAN COWELLAUG. 28, 2014…

True scale of police corruption claims revealed: Almost 100 officers a year are suspended over misconduct allegations

• 460 police officers suspended for alleged corruption since the start of 2009
• Offences include lying about suspects and stealing drugs from police…