If you were to hear that a brand new cricket ground was being constructed in India, you’d think nothing of it – but Indiana?

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Police have recaptured a convicted murderer they freed by mistake at a northern Illinois home where he was found watching TV.

A US federal court has struck down a ban on sex offenders using social networking sites like Facebook, calling the law unconstitutional.

Ever been so hungry you can’t unwrap your food quickly enough? You’ll be pleased to know the days of frantically ripping through cellophane may soon be a thing of past. Edible packaging is back on the agenda.

The last state in the 2012 presidential race has been called, with Florida going narrowly to President Obama.

Anthony Browne was a rock'n'roll manager turned interior designer whose clientele included media magnate Oprah Winfrey, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and such Washington socialites as Pamela Harriman. Browne's designing career was boosted when Oprah praised his work: "Anthony is a master at putting colours together," she told Architectural Digest in 2003. "When he's finished, the whole room rises up to meet you."

Dick McBride was a poet of the Beat Generation who acted as a literary bridge between the United States and Britain, bringing the writings and spirit of the Beats to this country. In books and in performances of his own works and those of fellow writers, he sought to broaden awareness of the poets who had made such an impact on American writing.

When Bill Buckley, the late and legendary conservative writer, founded the National Review in 1955, he said he wanted it to "stand athwart History, yelling Stop!". His successors at the magazine have today published an editorial in which they defend Richard Mourdock, the Republican nominee from Indiana, said this week: “I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from God. And, I think, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.”

An "outrageous and demeaning" comment by a Republican Party candidate for the US Senate has again dragged the party into the mire over women's rights.

In one respect at least, Jonnie Peacock, has yet to catch up with Oscar Pistorius. “No, I haven’t managed to have a chat with Oscar since then,” he says. “It’ll be interesting to see what he thinks about me now.”

A boat captain whose hand was bitten off by a 9ft alligator has been charged with unlawfully feeding the reptile.

The Indian protection tycoon Richie Nanda has hit out at rival G4S over its disastrous handling of Olympic security, after increasing his stake in rival Shield Guarding Company from 51 to 100 per cent.