A Dutch mental health patient has revealed how she was “overwhelmed and angry” when her new psychiatrist offered her euthanasia during their very first appointment: Manon, who was seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder, was told she met the criteria to be euthanised. She said: “I was suicidal, but I was looking for the help that I had actually never obtained – help for the core of... 

Two university students were slashed in a “random attack” by a man who was armed with the jagged neck of a broken bottle in Leicester city centre. One of the victims sustained a deep V-shaped gash needing 28 stitches, leaving a visible facial scar. The other suffered a cut near his left eye and had the front of his jacket slashed. The assailant, 30-year-old Ahmed Karadi, pleaded guilty at Leicester... 

Wiping out memories at a press of a button, just like with a ‘neuralizer’ from the Men in Black movie, may soon become a reality. Researchers have managed to erase and then restore lost memory in genetically modified rats with a flash of light. The study by researchers from University of California in San Diego, published in Nature journal , is the first cause-and-effect evidence that strengthening...