US country music star Glen Campbell has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, the 75-year-old and his wife tell a US magazine.

A revolver belonging to US gangster Al Capone is sold for £67,250 at auction.

New Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas needs to stamp his authority on the squad at Chelsea, according to the youngest manager in English football.

The United States will commit additional funds to fight drug cartels in Central America, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says at a security conference in Guatemala.

A motivational speaker is found guilty over the deaths of three people who fell ill during a meeting at an Arizona sweat lodge.

Single mothers will be hardest hit by the government's programme of benefit cuts and tax rises, says the Fawcett Society.

Plans to close some coastguard centres around the UK would raise "serious safety concerns" and has little support, an MP report says.

A new species of mushroom is named by its discoverers after the cartoon character SpongeBob Squarepants.