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Three killed and 56 injured in US air show crash

Saturday, 17 September 2011

A vintage World War II-era fighter plane plunged into the grandstands during a popular annual air show near Reno, Nevada, killing at least three people.

Need a witness? Amish men jailed over road safety

Saturday, 17 September 2011

Nine Amish men have been jailed after refusing to put orange reflective safety triangles on their buggies.

FBI halts training that labels Islam as violent

Saturday, 17 September 2011

The FBI has announced that a lecture at the bureau's training academy that was critical of Islam has been discontinued.

Gun found on pilot during airport check

Saturday, 17 September 2011

A gun was found in an airline pilot's bag during a screening at New York's LaGuardia Airport.

Obama's authority 'was undermined by advisers'

Saturday, 17 September 2011

David Usborne: Barack Obama’s attempts in the early months of his presidency to contend with the near meltdown of America’s financial system were hampered by a dysfunctional coterie of top advisors who “systematically undermined or hedged” his authority according to a new book to be published next week.

Reprieve for man 'sentenced to death for being black'

Saturday, 17 September 2011

Guy Adams: With just hours to go before he was due to be killed by lethal injection, a convicted murderer from Texas has been granted a temporary reprieve so the US Supreme Court can investigate whether he was originally sentenced to death because he is black.

Video: 25 die in one day in Mexico drug war

Friday, 16 September 2011

Twenty-five people have been killed in just 24 hours in the north of Mexico during battles between rival drug cartels and police.

Court stays Texas death row inmate execution

Friday, 16 September 2011

US Supreme Court issued the stay for Duane Buck who had been scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection.

Cherokee Nation runs into constitutional hot water over voting ban

Friday, 16 September 2011

David Usborne: The Cherokee Nation was struggling to find its way out of a controversy yesterday sparked by a decision earlier this month to eject the nearly 3,000 black members of the tribe and bar them from voting in elections for a new chief.

The man who moved in on Sarah Palin

Friday, 16 September 2011

Rupert Cornwell: A biographer has been an unwelcome neighbour for the darling of the American right. Now his book is due.

Missing cat lands on its feet after 1,800-mile trip

Friday, 16 September 2011

A pet cat that went missing in Colorado five years ago will be reunited with its owners after it was found wandering the streets of Manhattan more than 1,800 miles away.

Violent protests over UN presence

Friday, 16 September 2011

Protesters calling for UN peacekeepers to be withdrawn from Haiti clashed with police yesterday outside the National Palace, which was damaged in last year's earthquake.

'Bernie Madoff of campaign finance' charged with stealing from Democrats

Thursday, 15 September 2011

Guy Adams: Hundreds of Democratic candidates facing possibility that woman embezzled vast sums from campaign accounts.

Almost 1 in 6 Americans living below poverty line

Thursday, 15 September 2011

David Usborne: New figures on income levels released this week confirm what many in the US struggling to make ends meet already knew: it is a country in the midst of a poverty crisis that will define a generation.

Regulator pins responsibility for Gulf spill on BP but blame shared

Thursday, 15 September 2011

The long-awaited federal government report into the Deepwater Horizon disaster has blamed cost-cutting by BP for the explosion that sank the rig, killed 11 workers and left oil billowing into the Gulf of Mexico for almost three months.

Surprise election defeat sends warning to Obama

Thursday, 15 September 2011

David Usborne: Republican businessman scores resounding victory in special congressional election in New York City seat that has been Democrat stronghold for 80 years.

Sarah Palin husband hits back at book 'lies'

Thursday, 15 September 2011

Sarah Palin's husband is calling a book critical of his family "disgusting lies, innuendo and smears".

Khamenei uses power to delay release of Americans

Thursday, 15 September 2011

Iran's judiciary has said the release on bail of two US citizens convicted of espionage was not imminent, rejecting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's announcement that they will be freed in a couple of days.

Jackson's estate makes $310m

Thursday, 15 September 2011

Michael Jackson's estate has generated more than $310m (�197m) in the two years since the singer died deeply in debt, court documents show.

Investigation launched into eBay dispute

Thursday, 15 September 2011

US prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into whether eBay employees misappropriated confidential information from classified ad service Craigslist, according to a grand jury subpoena.