A French woman with an incurable facial tumour who lost a legal challenge seeking euthanasia has died at her home near Dijon at the age of 52.

Fantasist Emma Golightly was jailed for two years yesterday for plundering the bank accounts of men she met through lonely heart adverts.

Golightly created an extravagant web of deceit - posing as a rich businesswoman with homes abroad and a chauffeur-driven car, before fleecing their accounts.

The 22-year-old, of Meadowfield Gardens, Walkerville, Newcastle, even tricked two into marrying her so she would not die of cancer "unwed", Newcastle Crown Court heard.

She pretended to lavish them with cars, exotic holidays and expensive hotels, but was instead raiding their accounts.

California lawmakers are considering whether to require young girls to be vaccinated against a virus spread almost exclusively through sex -- but which can be deadly.

It could be good news if you're partial to fatty food – a glass of red wine a day can help counter the effects of obesity, scientists say.

Breast cancer may be different in many black American women than those of other races -- more aggressive and of a harder-to-treat type, researchers said on Monday.

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-- Seven years ago, biochemist Zheng Cui of Wake Forest University was conducting a routine experiment, injecting test mice with a strain of cancer cells so aggressive it caused a 100 percent death rate. Oddly, one of the mice wouldn't die. Thinking he had made an error, Cui injected the mouse with a million times the lethal dose, but it still lived. --

-- A delivery driver has thanked his workmates for saving his life after they paid for a scan which revealed he had a life threatening brain tumour.

Gary Harris' colleagues stumped up £700 for the private scan which revealed the deadly tumour, after he was told he would have to wait months to receive the scan on the NHS.

Doctors removed the tumour immediately after it was diagnosed and told Gary, 38, from Bristol, that it was so severe that he would have died while waiting to have the scan on the NHS. --