A body to die for

Want more curves, fewer wrinkles, a younger you? Easy... just attend a 'pumping party'. Unfortunately the silicone used is industrial grade, the 'doctors' are unlicensed and the results can be fatal. Now a murder-by-silicone trial is gripping America, reports Richard Luscombe in Miami.

Marijuana for Aids patients

Marijuana is to be distributed to cancer and Aids patients this morning in Santa Cruz, California, in the latest battle of an increasingly bitter war between the states and the federal government over the medical use of the drug.

Land of the fat

Obesity kills 300,000 people a year in America and is the nation's number-one health hazard. Nowhere is this more true than in Mississippi, where food is cheap and exercise unheard of. Matthew Engel visits the heaviest state of a country that is in danger of busting the scales.