"The tumour on the pelvis has been completely removed, including the surrounding tissue. There were no complications with other organs. He's in a stable condition with no complications and is making good progress."
Health regulators in the United States say that widely used drugs for lowering cholesterol may raise blood sugar levels and could cause memory loss. The Food and Drug Administration says it's placing warning labels on the drugs known as statins, which are considered to reduce the risk of heart attacks and heart disease. A spokesman for the FDA said the risks associated with taking statins remained extremely low.
Two museums in Poland and the United States are wrangling over the fate of a barracks building from the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. A spokesman for the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in Poland has said the loan of the barracks to the Washington-based Holocaust Memorial Museum has expired, but the Holocaust Memorial Museum says it could be damaged if disassembled and transported back to Poland. Here's Danny Aeberhard.
The relic at the heart of this dispute is highly symbolic: half of one of the wooden barracks used to cram in thousands of prisoners at the Birkenau section of the wide Auschwitz complex before they were taken to the gas chambers. The Holocaust Memorial Museum is keen to hold on to a prized exhibit. It says the loan it originally signed over 20 years ago was renewable. The director of the Auschwitz museum has hit back, telling a Polish newspaper, Rzeczpospolita, that any self-respecting museum returned loaned objects.