Mobile phones may increase the risk of developing brain cancer, an influential health organisation has said admitted for the first time.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organisation, has classified the radiation emitted by handsets as "possibly carcinogenic" although it did not find evidence of a clear link.
Its decision - putting mobiles in the same risk category as lead, the pesticide DDT and petrol exhausts - will put governments under pressure to update their advice to the public on the potential dangers of talking on mobiles for long periods of time.
Christopher Wild, the director of IARC, said that while more research is carried out "it is important to take pragmatic measures to reduce exposure such as hands-free devices or texting".
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