Washington  - US Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy, the long-time Democratic Party icon, has been released from a North Carolina hospital after undergoing successful surgery on a malignant brain tumour last week.

The senator was returning to his Hyannis Port, Massachusetts home, his office in Washington said in a statement.

Washington - Family members of Edward "Ted" Kennedy, the long-time Democratic Party icon and Massachusetts senator, who underwent successful surgery Monday on a malignant brain tumour discovered last month, said the Senator is doing well.

"I feel like a million bucks," Kennedy said after the surgery, according to a family spokesperson. "I think I'll do that again tomorrow."

The last surviving Kennedy brother was operated on for about three and a half hours at the Duke University Medical Centre in North Carolina, the hospital said in a statement.

Washington  - Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy on Thursday said he was doing "very well" and taking things "one day at a time" in his first public comments since being diagnosed with brain cancer earlier this week.

Kennedy, 76, the third-longest serving US senator and giant of the Democratic Party, said he had received an "incredible amount of wonderful notes" from congressional colleagues and the public.

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.

Washington - Stunned silence swept Tuesday across the US Congress, observers said.

One colleague wept.

Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy, left-wing icon and champion of the rights of workers and the poor, had been diagnosed with brain cancer.

The announcement sent shockwaves throughout Washington's political establishment, with Republican and Democratic leaders alike paying tribute to his achievements and significance in US political life.

Washington - Longtime Democratic Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor and could undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatment, his doctors revealed Tuesday.

The doctors said preliminary biopsy results showed the cause of the two seizures suffered over the weekend was a malignant glioma tumor in the head of the 76-year-old senator.

Kennedy was resting in Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and was moving around and in good condition, a statement by his doctor said, according to CNN.