Smokers, people with alcohol problems and the obese could be denied priority treatment on the NHS if they do not try to change their lifestyle.

The U.S. Air Force is quietly spending millions of dollars investigating ways to use a radical power source — antimatter, the eerie “mirror” of ordinary matter — in future weapons.

The White House recently announced that President Bush issued pardons to 16 individuals. Their offenses included bank fraud, conspiracy to defraud the government, possession of marijuana and cocaine, and mail fraud.

Incoming House Intelligence Chairman Silvestre Reyes says he’d rather figure out how to stabilize Iraq and bring the troops home than get bogged down investigating what went wrong.

As he awaits his final hour in a dreary, U.S. military-run prison down the street from one of his former palaces, confusion and secrecy shroud when and how Saddam Hussein will be hanged.

Last Saturday afternoon Eva Voorhees heard the clatter of feet on the roof of the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Mitchell where she works in the photo department — but it wasn’t the pitter-patter of reindeer.

John McTernan, the Prime Minister’s political secretary, has been interviewed under caution by the Metropolitan Police over a Downing Street e-mail trail in the “cash for peerages” inquiry.

On December 15, the Labour government called off the three-year long investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into the alleged bribery of the Saudi ruling family by British Aerospace (BAe) in the multibillion-pound Al Yamamah defence contract.

The biggest cash crop in the United States is not corn or wheat, according to public policy analyst Jon Gettman, as marijuana produces more annual revenue than those crops combined; nearly $35 billion.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will declare today that meat from cloned animals is safe to eat.

The ice island is 37 metres (120ft) thick and measures 9 miles by 3 miles, according to the CanWest News Service. It broke clear from Ellesmere island, about 500 miles south of the North Pole, 16 months ago, triggering tremors so powerful they were picked up by earthquake monitors 155 miles away.

All passports issued by the US State Department after January 1 will have always-on radio frequency identification chips, making it easy for officials - and hackers - to grab your personal stats.

A U.S. military officer tells CBS News that Saddam Hussein will be turned over to the Iraqi government within the next 36 hours. The officer expects that the Iraqis will execute their former leader before the start of the Eid religious holiday on Sunday, reports CBS News national security correspondent David Martin.

An Army interpreter accused of spying for Iran was sent for trial at the Old Bailey yesterday. His solicitor said he was confident he would clear his name.

Saddam Hussein’s chief lawyer has urged the US not to hand over the ousted leader to Iraqi authorities for execution because he is a “war prisoner”.