US radio star Rush Limbaugh's health scare over

Right-wing US talk show host Rush Limbaugh says tests taken after he was admitted to hospital with chest pains showed nothing wrong with his heart.

Mr Limbaugh said he was being released from the Queen's Medical Center, in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he had been since Wednesday.

He said he did not know what had caused the chest pains.

Mr Limbaugh, 58, is highly influential in the US and his radio show is one of the most popular in the country.

It is broadcast on some 600 stations across the country and heard by more than 14 million people every week.

Earlier, standing in on Mr Limbaugh's radio show, guest host Walter E Williams had described the radio star's pains as similar to the feeling of a "heart attack coming on".

But doctors said Mr Limbaugh had not had a heart attack and did not suffer from heart disease, the Associated Press news agency reported.

Mr Limbaugh is in Hawaii on holiday.

Bernard Madoff was not attacked, US prison says

Disgraced US financier Bernard Madoff is being treated in a prison hospital for hypertension and dizziness, a US Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman has said.

Traci Billingsley denied earlier media reports that Madoff was assaulted at a prison in North Carolina.

Madoff, aged 71, is serving 150 years for a $65bn (£41bn) fraud.

He admitted defrauding thousands of investors through a Ponzi scheme, which pays out using new investors' money rather than from any profits.

He said the scheme had been running since the early 1990s.

It unravelled when Madoff's investors, hit by the economic downturn, tried to withdraw about $7bn, but he could not produce the money.

The list of his victims included film director Steven Spielberg's charitable foundation.

Separated Bangladeshi twins leave Australia hospital

Two Bangladeshi girls, who up until last month were joined at the head, have left hospital.

The twins made a much better recovery than expected from the marathon operation which separated them.

The former conjoined twins Trishna and Krishna have amazed doctors at the hospital in Melbourne where they were being treated. Separated Bangladeshi twins leave Australia hospital

Both are now finding their feet, a change from their old habit of crawling round the floor.

The twins were born with their brains fused together, and were given only a 25% chance of both surviving the operation to separate them.

But they have amazed medics with their resilience and recovery, following last month's 32-hour operation.

Doctors decided they were in good enough health to leave hospital to celebrate their third birthdays, their first as separate children.

Brought to Australia two years ago, having been discovered by aid workers in a Dhaka orphanage, the girls are now expected to lead long and happy lives.

It is believed they survived the operation without any serious neurological damage.