New York floods: Basement rescues spark climate change concerns
About 100,000 New Yorkers live in basement homes that climate change has remade into “death traps”.
New York City: State of emergency declared over flash flooding
Subways were inundated and people were urged “never attempt to travel on flooded roads”.
Archive footage from the scene of Tupac’s murder
The hip-hop legend was shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996.
US Navy will start testing elite Seals for illicit drug use
US Navy special forces include Sea, Air and Land teams (Seals) and special boat teams, with around 9,000 sailors. Special forces are called upon to carry out secretive, sensitive missions.…
Michael Oher: Judge ends conservatorship for Blind Side family
The 2004 agreement gave Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy legal control over the ex-NFL player’s finances.
The Gamble: Can Genetically Modified Mosquitoes End Disease?
On a muggy evening in July on the island of Príncipe, part of a volcanic archipelago 200 miles off the West African mainland, 11,000 mosquitoes dusted in fluorescent green powder…
Tupac Shakur: Duane Davis charged with 1996 murder of rapper
Greg Kading, a retired Los Angeles police detective who spent years investigating Shakur’s murder, told the Associated Press he is not surprised by Mr Davis’ arrest.”All the other direct conspirators…
Watch: ’27 years’ for Tupac – sheriff gets emotional
An arrest has been made for the murder of rapper Tupac, who was killed in September 1996. Sheriff Kevin McMahill from the Las Vegas Police Department announced the arrest of…
Government shutdown only hours away in the US
A right-wing revolt has left Congress unable to fund federal agencies before a Saturday midnight deadline.
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, ‘shocked’ by killing of ex-assistant
Sarah Ferguson pays tribute to Jenean Chapman, 46, who was found dead in a Dallas apartment on Monday.