Jurors need to decide if paralysed victim, David Chandler, was alert when police say he identified alleged killer

Chris Kelly, who for a brief period in the 1990s was famous as one half of the diminutive hip-hop duo Kriss Kross, has died in Atlanta. He was 34. Kelly, known as “Mac Daddy”, and his rap partner Chris “Daddy Mac” Smith, were only 13 when they were discovered at a local mall by producer Jermaine Dupri, who signed them to his So So Def label.

The online advert shows a battered white woman on crutches being urged to identify a suspect from a line-up of black men and a goat

Brenda Heist, from Lititz, Pennsylvania, went missing in 2002 after dropping her children off at school

The video-hosting website recently claimed 1 billion unique visitors a month

The Afghan leader was speaking on a visit to Denmark

A British poker champion has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for the murder of his wife in America 16 years ago.

A boy of five has shot dead his two-year-old sister in the US with a rifle he was given as a present.

The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday appealed a court order directing the agency to make "morning-after" emergency contraception pills available without a prescription to all girls of reproductive age.

Two men charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, the third with making false statements to investigators

The new presidential Library in Dallas  offers an interactive experience of life in the Oval Office. David Usborne takes the hotseat

President seeks proof of how chemical weapons were used in Syria before taking major decision

Commander Hadfield has changed the way we think about space

In a cheeky ruling, which positively bulges with double entendres and dirty literary jokes, a Texas judge has ordered strip club dancers in San Antonio to don larger underwear.

Omar Hammami shot in neck after falling out with al-Qa’ida-affiliated group in Somalia