For patients with prostate cancer, it is a common surgical procedure: a doctor implants dozens ofradioactive seeds to attack the disease. When Dr. Gary D. Kaotreated one patient at the veteransâ ™ hospital in Philadelphia, his aimwas more than a

Intellpuke: This analysis was written by Lisa Boscov-Ellen, aResearch Associate with the Council On Hemispheric Affairs (COHA). Thisanalysis was posted on COHA's Web site on Friday, June 19, 2009. What is called for is an international code for the publicâ

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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has ordered top ministers at theTreasury and Department of Business to draw up plans to cope withrising oil prices and a lending drought for U.K. companies, amid fears that the nation's economic recovery risks being

A day after police and militia forces used guns, truncheons, teargas and water cannons to beat back thousands of demonstrators, a tensequiet set over this city of Tehran Sunday as the standoff between the governmentand thousands of protesters hardened into

POST services in Scotland were disrupted yesterday after hundreds of Scots postal workers took part in strike action in a row over job cuts and services.

SCOTLAND's army of full-time police counter-terror experts has tripled since the Glasgow Airport attack, new figures revealed last night.

IT'S the bizarre saga of the outspoken author, the affronted MP and the hugely controversial book which sank quicker than a leaky longboat.

HE IS under more pressure than any Briton going in to Wimbledon for decades. Andy Murray, now the second favourite, carries the high hopes of the nation.

SCOTLAND's top-flight football clubs were last night increasingly confident they would survive the crisis gripping satellite TV firm Setanta.

THE thing about soldiers is they have to tell it like it is. There is no point being evasive or gilding the lily under fire. It can get you killed. So if things aren't go

COSTS at the Whitehall department which covers Scottish affairs have "spiralled out of control" according to the SNP.

GORDON Brown has triggered fresh calls for an early general election after he admitted yesterday that he had no interest in the trappings of power and could walk away from Dow

SCOTS MPs are channelling hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money to their local parties with payments for rent, utility bills and other "services", e

ALEX Salmond is continuing to reject calls for him to open up his diaries, amid evidence he claimed for food costs at Westminster two years ago despite rarely attending the Co

HOW many photographs exist of Alex Salmond eating? There must be hundreds. Alex eating pies. Alex eating curries (lots of those). Alex eating ice cream cones. There wa

LAST Christmas, Labour MPs all celebrated the festive season in the usual manner: they issued greetings to their constituents, praised local medical staff during the holiday p

THERE was real anger in that voice. And with justification. The sacking of more than 600 contractors from the Lindsey oil refinery this week was seen as more than just an ord

NORTHERN Ireland has always been one enormous paradox. How else can you describe a country celebrated in equal measure for its "craic" and for the seething hatred whic

THE 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow will not provide the lasting boost to the jobs market that the city hopes for, says an economic report.