PROFILE: psychiatrist trained to treat stress

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, was trained to prevent precisely the scenes of horror he brought to Fort Hood

After 9/11 any attack has grim echoes

The Fort Hood attack had eerie echoes of a foiled terror plot at Fort Dix in New Jersey in 2007

Taleban on a mission to divide and rule

The UN decision to withdraw staff from Afghanistan has placed a wedge between Kabul residents and their foreign guests

Illegal immigrants demonstrate in Georges

One of the most prestigious restaurants in Paris is hosting a protest by the foreign workers who keep French cuisine alive

New push for President Blair

As the race for EU president enters its final stages, Labour's leaders are determined to see Tony Blair nab the top job

Melting snow shrinks Mont Blanc

The volume of snow and ice coating the summit of Mont Blanc, Western Europe's tallest mounting, has fallen by a tenth

Belgian Prime Minister leads EU presidency race

Herman Van Rompuy is at the head of the pack by virtue of being the contender with the fewest enemies and the least experience

ElBaradei says nothing to fear over Iran plant

UN weapons inspector's findings concurred with Tehran’s insistence that the site near Qom is not built to conceal a military use

Jaycee Lee Dugard lied to police

Official report says kidnap victim tried to mislead officers about relationship with rapist who held her for nearly two decades

Sarkozy warns Cameron on stance over Europe

France and Poland tell Conservatives the Lisbon treaty will not be renegotiated as William Hague says the policy stands

Mann could be witness in any Thatcher trial

British mercenenary’s release makes criminal and civil actions possible against son of the former Prime Minister

Bomb expert who 'went camping' never to return

Family pays tribute to Olaf Schmid, who told them he was going camping when he left for the Army’s most dangerous job

Zimbabwe escapes diamond export ban

Zimbabwean army accused of coordinated efforts to conduct an illegal mining and smuggling operation

Hero bodyguard saves UN staff

Louis Maxwell gave his life in a brave stand in Kabul that may have stopped the UN withdrawing from Afghanistan

Pakistan ‘flooding India with fake money’

Officials claim that economic sabotage is to blame for huge rise in number of counterfeit bank notes in circulation

Poll delay threatens US pullout from Iraq

MPs' failure to agree electoral law means national elections will be delayed for months, putting Obama's August deadline in doubt

COMMENTARY: a wonderful discovery

It takes on average 10-12 years and about £500 million worth of investment to develop a new medicine ready for use