New York  -

New York, May 21: Democrat Senator Edward M. Kennedy has been admitted to the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and been diagnosed with a malignant form of brain tumour.

According to the New York Times, doctors at the hospital are investigating the cause of a seizure that Kennedy, 76, suffered at his Cape Cod compound on Saturday.

They said preliminary results from a biopsy of the brain had revealed that he has a malignant glioma in the left parietal lobe, the upper left part of his brain.

Nairobi/New York  - The United Nations Security Council should impose sanctions on Sudanese officials who authorized "scorched earth" attacks that saw hundreds of civilians killed in West Darfur, i

New York, May

New York  - A life-sized nude by the British painter Lucian Freud sold for 33.6 million dollars, the highest price ever paid at auction for the work of a living artist.