David Bennett

According to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the heart had seemed healthy for the first month but began showing signs of rejection in recent days.

A 57-year-old man with terminal heart disease who made history as the first person to receive a genetically modified pig's heart died on Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), the hospital said.

The first person to receive a pig heart transplant has died two months after the historic procedure, the hospital that carried out the surgery said Wednesday.

US surgeons have successfully implanted a heart from a genetically modified pig in a 57-year-old man, a medical first that could one day help solve the chronic shortage of organ donations.

A 25.59 carat "pigeon blood" ruby sold for a world record $30.33 million at auction in Geneva Tuesday while a rare pink diamond believed to have once belonged to Napoleon's niece fetched $15.9 million, Sotheby's said.

Scotland's nationalists were seen as winners in Britain's election and the UK Independence Party losers -- but the latter won more support, highlighting peculiarities in the voting system that are prompting calls for change.

Tomorrow, Britain will go to the polls to elect its new government. This is one of the strangest elections in recent memory in the country as there is no sense of who might be the winner. The opinion polls are putting the two main national parties, the Conservatives and the Labour, neck-and-neck.

The only televised debate between British Prime Minister David Cameron, opposition leader Ed Miliband and five others yielded no clear winners, making it more difficult for pollsters to predict the outcome of next month's election.

The astronomers used a technique called gravitational microlensing, in which one star passes in front of another as seen from Earth.

Astronomers may have discovered the first known moon outside our solar system and it is 1,800 light years from Earth.

A group of prisoners in Georgia, in the United States, have filed a lawsuit after being made to stand naked for 12 hours, smeared with cream, a media report said.The lawsuit claims that 29 inmates at the Whitfield County jail in Dalton - about 145 km north of Atlanta - were involved in the incident in October last year, The Australian quoted the At...

According to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the heart had seemed healthy for the first month but began showing signs of rejection in recent days.

A 57-year-old man with terminal heart disease who made history as the first person to receive a genetically modified pig's heart died on Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), the hospital said.

The first person to receive a pig heart transplant has died two months after the historic procedure, the hospital that carried out the surgery said Wednesday.

US surgeons have successfully implanted a heart from a genetically modified pig in a 57-year-old man, a medical first that could one day help solve the chronic shortage of organ donations.

A 25.59 carat "pigeon blood" ruby sold for a world record $30.33 million at auction in Geneva Tuesday while a rare pink diamond believed to have once belonged to Napoleon's niece fetched $15.9 million, Sotheby's said.

Scotland's nationalists were seen as winners in Britain's election and the UK Independence Party losers -- but the latter won more support, highlighting peculiarities in the voting system that are prompting calls for change.

Tomorrow, Britain will go to the polls to elect its new government. This is one of the strangest elections in recent memory in the country as there is no sense of who might be the winner. The opinion polls are putting the two main national parties, the Conservatives and the Labour, neck-and-neck.

The only televised debate between British Prime Minister David Cameron, opposition leader Ed Miliband and five others yielded no clear winners, making it more difficult for pollsters to predict the outcome of next month's election.

The astronomers used a technique called gravitational microlensing, in which one star passes in front of another as seen from Earth.

Astronomers may have discovered the first known moon outside our solar system and it is 1,800 light years from Earth.

A group of prisoners in Georgia, in the United States, have filed a lawsuit after being made to stand naked for 12 hours, smeared with cream, a media report said.The lawsuit claims that 29 inmates at the Whitfield County jail in Dalton - about 145 km north of Atlanta - were involved in the incident in October last year, The Australian quoted the At...