LONDON - ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed a human brain in northern England that dates back to the Iron Age, York University officials said on Friday.

The brain, which is at least 2,000 years old, is the oldest ever discovered in Britain, and thought to be one of the oldest found anywhere in the world.

HONG KONG - A SECOND rare Chinese sturgeon, which was one of 10 gift fish from Beijing in celebration of the Beijing Olympic Games in August, has died in a Hong Kong amusement park, officials said Friday.

WASHINGTON - US health officials said on Thursday they will add the sternest safety warnings available to prescription drugs used to cleanse the bowel before colonoscopies.

The federal Food and Drug Administration said it has received more than 20 reports of a rare but serious form of kidney failure among patients who have taken the drugs, known as oral phosphate products.