US President seeks to assauge anger – at  home and abroad – over unmanned flight attacks

Lack of a death certificate or burial site and sparse obituary information has led to talk in hip-hop circles that rapper Tim Dog, who owes thousands of dollars to women he was convicted of swindling, faked his own death.

The Boy Scouts of America has thrown open its ranks to gay youngsters, but not adult leaders, in a compromise that some warned could fracture the organisation and lead to mass defections.

Dramatic footage has emerged of a 300-yard wooden railroad bridge in Central Texas collapsing after catching fire.

1,400 members will cast ballots to determine whether openly gay members should not be excluded from participating

The Obama administration acknowledged publicly for the first time that four US citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009 in Pakistan and Yemen.

If Mary Portas can’t save the high street, perhaps J-Lo can? The entrepreneurial diva has announced that she is to open her own retail chain of mobile phone stores.

Glenn Lewis wants safe rooms provided in every new-built home

The vast tornado that struck an Oklahoma suburb on Monday afternoon dwarfed even the Hiroshima atomic bomb in its destructive power, according to scientists.

Man identified as Ibragim Todashev, who reportedly knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev as both were mixed martial-arts fighters

Stay or flee? Pick up loved ones or take cover? The choices made in the moments after the tornado warnings sounded were a matter of life and death

Former congressman resigned following 'sexting' scandal in 2011

At least 24 people, including nine children, killed by massive EF5 tornado

Nasa has released images taken by satellites showing the devastating tornado as it struck the town of Moore in Oklahoma.

Picture of Cobb family staggering out of Briarwood Elementary school featured on front pages of newspapers across the world